2004 News Archive
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4 March

National News

Father of Three in Deportation Battle
The Scotsman, UK - 
... false passport and faced certain removal. An asylum application failed
in July 2003. Mr Faluyi argued there were “exceptional ...

Hunger-Strike Asylum Seekers Lose Consciousness
The Scotsman, UK - 
... Association. Two Kurdish asylum seekers who have been on hunger strike
for more than two weeks slipped into unconsciousness today. ...

Legal Chief Answers Blunkett's Attack on Lawyers
The Scotsman, UK - 
... in England and Wales. Mr Blunkett accused lawyers of “abusing” the
asylum appeals and judicial review system. He also said during ...

Judges turn on Blair
Manchester Evening News, UK - 
... of others around the world. He also condemned government plans to
prevent the courts reviewing asylum cases. His fierce attack on ...

Legal reforms: Government to press on
ic Coventry, UK - 
The Government is to press ahead with controversial constitutional and asylum procedure
reforms despite fierce criticism from the country's most senior judge. ...

Q&A: Supreme court row
BBC News, UK - 
... Yes, he said plans to strip asylum seekers of the right to apply for judicial review
of their claims conflicts with the "rule of law" and could fuel calls for ...

ANGRY LIKE THE WOOLF
The Mirror, UK - 
... The new court will be subordinate to the will of Parliament.". He also
slammed ministers' plans to stop courts reviewing asylum cases. ...

Blunkett blasts judge
The Sun, UK - 
By NIC CECIL. DAVID Blunkett told Britain’s top judge last night to
stop carping at his plans to end abuse of Britain’s asylum system. ...

3 March

National News

Charities face dilemma : food parcels or press releases
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 
... violence, or significant death. It is compelling when there are visuals:
refugee camps etc.,” one respondent said. “It is less ...

Axe victim was dumped in street
Newham Recorder, UK - 
TWO pizza delivery men dumped the bloodied body of an Afghan asylum seeker in a busy
street after he was brutally murdered with an axe, a court heard on Friday ...

Exam help for refugee doctors
ic Wales, UK - 
... Two of the refugee doctors who have been helped by DPIA are now working in Newport
and another in Rhyl after attending the free pre-exam English and medical ...

Redcap grandad's grief
The Sun, UK - 
... defenceless. AN Iraqi asylum seeker who knifed a Marine five times
in the head and arm was jailed for 3½ years yesterday. Gunner ...

Labour plan to put rebel MPs 'on trial'
The Scotsman, UK - 
... Following a rebellion by 28 MPs last night over proposals to stop welfare
payments to failed asylum seekers, she believes action must be taken. ...

2 March

Local News

Labour rebels facing the axe
Evening Chronicle
Labour Chief Whip and Durham North West MP Hilary Armstrong is urging Labour's leaders to stage trials ...

National News

Labour plan to put rebel MPs 'on trial'
The Scotsman, UK - 
... Following a rebellion by 28 MPs last night over proposals to stop welfare
payments to failed asylum seekers, she believes action must be taken. ...

Refugee hiring employers fear Mail media mentality
HR Gateway, UK - 
Blanket negative publicity of asylum seekers is gagging firms from advertising
the benefits that hiring refugees in case it leads to negative press coverage ...

Rebels threatened over revolt
This is London, UK - 
... erupted in the Commons last night when 35 Labour MPs voted with the Liberal Democrats
against a proposal to curb appeal rights for failed asylum seekers. ...

1 March

Local News

Welfare groups' fury over asylum Bill
The Journal
The Home Secretary's plan to stop welfare payments to failed asylum seekers could lead to youngsters ...

The Week in five minutes
ic Newcastle.co.uk, UK - 
... Grangetown: Fire crews said a Nigerian asylum seeker and her two children were
lucky to be alive after burning material was pushed through the letterbox of ...

MP slams Blunkett's immigration plans
The Journal
Nick Brown has attacked Home Secretary David Blunkett's strategy for deterring illegal immigrants and ...

Passport forgery immigrants jailed
Journa/Chronicle
Two Romanians who helped run a multi-million pound forgery factory "dedicated" to bringing illegal immigrants ...

DON'T SEND US TO DEATH Shields Gazette

Pit lamp gift for new citizens Sunderland Echo 25 Feb

It's too early to send people home Sunderland Echo 17 Feb

National News

Asylum seekers hospital drama
Sheffield Today, UK - 
... They have had their claims for asylum rejected, although documents given to the Home
Office state the family found it impossible to live in Prague because they ...

Tabloids brimming with bile
Guardian, UK - 
... and Romano Prodi. There citizens of the EU and illegal asylum seekers
were mixed indiscriminately into a rancid brew. There Edward ...

Welfare groups' fury over asylum Bill
Femail, UK - 
he Home Secretary's plan to stop welfare payments to failed asylum seekers
could lead to youngsters sleeping rough on the streets, it was claimed. ...

Dutch asylum policy is not motivated by intolerance
Financial Times, UK - 
By Rita Verdonk. Sir, Reports have recently appeared in the international
press on the new Dutch plans to return failed asylum-seekers. ...

Latvians deported weeks before EU accession
The Herald, UK - 
TWO Latvian asylum seekers have been deported from Scotland eight weeks before
they could legally settle in the country as economic migrants, it emerged ...

Rage at asylum reforms
The Sun, UK - 
By NIC CECIL. LABOUR’S bid to tackle asylum system abusers was
blasted by the Tories last night. Home Secretary David Blunkett ...

Cardinal's asylum bill plea
BBC News, UK - 
Scotland's MPs are being urged to take a stand against the government's
flagship Asylum and Immigration Bill by Cardinal Keith O'Brien. ...

Asylum seeker vice madam
The Sun, UK - 
By MIKE SULLIVAN. AN asylum seeker kicked out of Britain returned to
make millions of pounds as a vice queen, a court heard yesterday. ...

Movement in an unfair world
Felix, UK - 
... The motives are the same, but the incentive to migrate is far greater. It is both
wrong and unfair for economic migrants to pretend to be asylum seekers. ...

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