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May 24, 2021

Self-immolated Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker dies in hospital in Erbil

Iranian Kurdish asylum seeker Behzad Mahmoudi, who had set himself on fire last week in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in protest of the uncertainty regarding his refugee status, has lost his life in the hospital this morning due to suffering from severe burns. Mahmoudi set himself on fire on 18 May 2021...

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