Britain’s decision to grant asylum to an atheist Afghan citizen for religious reasons was hailed as ground-breaking for giving the same rights to non-religious people as to the religious.
The unnamed man fled to Britain at the age of 16 in 2007 from a conflict involving his family in Afghanistan. He was brought up a Muslim but during his time in Britain he abandoned his religion and became an atheist, according to his legal team at the University of Kent’s Law School.
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