Among the cases the CCRC has referred back to the Appeal Court were those of Amir Ghavami and Saeideh Afshar, Iranian refugees convicted of entering Britain on fake documents. It emerged that the couple had first travelled from Iran to Thailand, where they spent two months, followed by three weeks in Tanzania, a week in Kenya and three weeks in Spain – all four of them deemed safe countries - before entering the UK. The pair admitted they were free to claim asylum in Spain but had decided they did not want to live there because they do not speak Spanish. Their convictions were quashed by the Appeal Court.