December
13 December
National news
UK bill threatens foreign students, says student union
Workpermit.com , UK -
The UK's new Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill that is being presented to the House of Lords, could see International students lose their right to ...
DAILY MIRROR CHRISTMAS APPEAL: I WAS SCARED AND ALONE IN A STRANGE ...
Mirror.co.uk, UK -
... I felt so alone.". Rifat, 37, spent two months in London before she was granted a house in Swansea while her claim for asylum was processed. ...
Glasgow Girls fight to help Armenian family
The Herald, UK -
... The Hagopians had been living in Scotstoun and, according to supporters, had not been informed their application for asylum had been rejected. ...
Dan, 4, at asylum seekers' jobs call
Glasgow Evening Times, UK -
PAULINE SALUMU and her son Dan show their allegiance as they set off for George Square to demand the right for asylum seekers in Scotland to work. ...
Campaigners march for asylum seekers
Glasgow Evening Times,
Supporters, including the Scottish African Refugee Community Organisation, believe
asylum seekers offer a solution to the decline of the Scottish population at
...
12 December
National news
Straw faces MPs over claims MI6 delivered suspect for torture
Independent , UK -
... Mr Habashi, an Ethiopian who claimed asylum in Britain, says he was taken to CIA detention centres and subjected to systematic torture by Americans who claimed ...
Refugees in cruel limbo
ZWNEWS.com , UK -
Thousands of Zimbabweans who have been refused asylum in Britain are staying on to live hand-to-mouth on food and shelter given by strangers because they are ...
Sri Lankan family lives in fear of deportation
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom -
... Somasundram Pan Dara Nagarasa (Soma), his wife and three remaining children have been refused asylum after a number of appeals since they arrived in September ...
Students: Save our friend from torture
Hampstead Express, UK -
... Iran. Judges threw out the asylum appeal of 18-year-old Quintin Kynaston (sixth-former Behnam, whose family live in Hampstead. He ...
9 December
National news
Reprieve for Belarus family as the Glasgow Girls strike again
The Herald, UK -
A group of pupils known as the Glasgow Girls have been successful in securing the release from detention of a family of asylum seekers. ...
Asylum seekers
Socialistworker.co.uk, UK -
Zimbabwean asylum seekers Thando Dube and Amanda Sibiya were on their 35th day of hunger strike at the Yarl’s Wood detention centre at the beginning of this ...
How a man from Darfur cannot get his asylum claim heard in Europe ...
Reuters AlertNet, UK -
... to have been committed. Enough for an asylum claim by someone from Darfur to be taken seriously, one would think. At the end of ...
Family wins right to fight deportation
The Herald, UK -
AN African family of asylum seekers yesterday won the legal right to challenge attempts by the Home Office to deport them at the Court of Session. ...
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