Kurdish lesbians, Pari and Dilsa have one wish: to live together; but they may not only fail in that endeavor – it could be worse – they would both be killed if the Swedish Government deports them to Iraq. Gays and Lesbians are prosecuted and sentenced to die in Iraq.

“It is like sending them straight to the cemetery”, says MPAmine Kakabaveh

They live in a small room in one of the Migration Board apartments. The Swedish Immigration Court has decided they should be expelled in a week.

“We are so afraid that we can barely sleep or eat, “says Dilsa.

The two women , in their 30s fell in love in Iraq five years ago. But they had hide their relationship for fear of persecution. Pari’s family is one of the most powerful Muslim clans in the country with governmental power. Being a lesbian in the environment was impossible and dangerous.

Pari was being forced to marry a relative, but she refused and confessed that she loved a woman.

Death sentences were issued by the clan. First Pari would be killed, then Dilsa. With Pari managed to flee to Sweden in 2006. Dilsa hid at a friend’s home in Iraq.

They reunited in Sweden, they wanted to pursue their dream, to marry. But the missing documents and they were told that they must obtain a passport. Dilsa brother in Iraq arranged a passport for his sister, afterwards he was murdered. “If they killed my brother, what will they do to me?” she said