March

News Roundup – 30/03/08

Asylum seekers tell their stories
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314708.stm

Asylum system ‘shameful’ for the UK, and ‘marred by inhumanity’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314710.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/27/immigrationpolicy.immigrationandpublicservices
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-a-system-that-could-do-much-much-better-801171.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7315800?redirect=7315880.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&asb=1

MPs join fight to save Mehdi Kamezi
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/now-mps-join-fight-to-save-mehdi-kazemi-802336.html

Helping failed asylum seekers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7317200?redirect=7317262.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1

Oakington detainees go on hunger strike
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7319000?redirect=7319069.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1

Anger as 50 Iraqi refugees are sent back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/30/immigrationpolicy.immigration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/iraq.immigration

Asylum seekers say expulsion flight ended in beating in Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/29/immigration.immigrationpolicy

News Roundup – 21/03/08

Iraqi asylum seeker numbers jump.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7301985.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/18/iraq.immigration
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/number-of-iraqis-claiming-asylum-in-europe-doubles-797189.html

From Baghdad to Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/20/iraq.immigration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/13/immigrationpolicy.immigration1

Iraqi asylum seekers given deadline to go home or face destitution in the UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/13/immigrationpolicy.immigration

Deported Ghanaian dies of cancer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/20/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices

News Roundup – 12/03/08

Afghan Refugee pays speed fine
(Why this is news, I don’t know, appears to be man caught speeding, and ooh, he is a refugee)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7283236.stm

Gay Iranian man loses asylum plea
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7290330.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/10/immigration.immigrationpolicy
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3531630.ece

On 13 March Jacqui Smith reviewed the deportation order.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/13/immigration.iran

Britain failing child asylum seekers
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/traumatised-and-neglected-how-britain-fails-child-asylumseekers-792760.html

£15,000 for illegally detained asylum seeker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/10/immigration.immigrationpolicy

News Roundup – 06/03/08

Legal Aid Cuts affect Asylum http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7274784.stm

Theatre stars unite to condemn ‘brutal’ asylum system
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7274784.stm

New Report form The Children’s Commissioner condemns the treatment of unaccompanied asylum children.
https://www.childrenscommissioner.org/adult/ccnews/index.cfm?id=1953&newsid=141
Refugee council supports children’s commissioner report
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2008/march/20080303.htm

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