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AHMED FAMILY A catalogue of inhumanities that began with a dawn raid on a small family in 15 Forbes Place, Royston, Glasgow G21 see www.paih.org for latest news on the campaign Missing: Where is 16 year old Farhad? 16-11-05 See also: Ahmed family campaign Support the amnesty for Scottish asylum families, sign the online petition now We are trying to trace the whereabouts of 16 year old Farhad Ahmed, a fourth year pupil at St Roch's Secondary School.
Farhad was due back 'home' at 15 Forge Place, Germiston, Royston, Glasgow G21 on Monday 14 November 2005.
However, on the the previous Friday (11 November), without his knowledge, Farhad's mum Farhat (40), his older brother Faheem (19) and younger sister Zoha (13), herself a pupil at St Roch's Secondary School, were the victims of a brutal 'dawn raid' by a 12 strong Home Office snatch squad. Farhad's only way of contacting his family was by calling his mum's mobile (he does not have one). That was the only means of contact. However the Home Office snatch squad immediately confiscated Farhad's mum's mobile despite her pleading that her youngest son was not in the flat and she needed the mobile so he could call her.
The family then endured a further catalogue of inhumane treatment right up until the point that they were forcibly put onto the plane to Pakistan despite Farhad's older brother Faheem protesting to the immigration officers that he would not leave the UK without his younger brother.
His mother, herself ill with lung problems and heart disease - was forced under duress to make a terrible choice virtually on the tarmac of Gatwick Airport. A women from Immigration screamed at her to 'shut up! shut up!" and that they would make sure Faheem went to jail "forever" and she would then never see either of her sons again if she did not make Faheem go onto the plane. When Mrs Ahmed heard this, she went quiet and then forced Faheem to go onto the plane and leave behind her younger son. Nothing has been heard from the Ahmed family in Pakistan or Farhad here in the Uk.
Brutal inhumanities took place on British soil against the Ahmed family between 11 and 14 November 2005. That inhumanity continues.
16 year old Farhad was expected back on 14-11-05 but has not returned. We don't know if he has disappeared or is scared or even alive. We fear for his safety. He has no keys or mobile phone. He still doesn’t know his family has been deported. His mum called a neighbour at Forbes Place from the airport to ask her to look out for Farhad when he got home the next day. The neighbour promised she would. She then put up a notice on his front door telling him to go to them. But noone has heard anything. If you see or hear from Farhad, please urge him to contact his neighbours. If anyone can help with tracing Farhad please contact 0141 353 2220.
To add to this misery, the Ahmed's friend and neighbour, also an asylum seeker, was informed yesterday (Tuesday 15-11-05) that she must leave the UK despite being settled here for two years without complaint (and there is plenty to complain about when you see the state of Forbes Place - urine-ridden, needle-ridden, damp, miserable, freezing cold with the wind whipping through the stairwells - probably one of the worst high rises we have ever encountered). There is a sense of fear amongst many of the asylum seeker residents because of the impending doom of further dawn raids on the families living in the block.
The Ahmed’s is the worst case yet to come to public attention since the recent dawn raids on the Vucaj family on 13 September (Kingsway) and the Kupeli family on 14 October (Gorbals). There are thousands more frightened people - like the Ahmed's, Vucaj's and the Kupeli's - living in Glasgow who are terrified they are going to be the next victims of a dawn raid.
As the horrific treatment of our fellow human beings comes to light, charities, churches and ordinary Scottish people are expressing their outrage and using the word ‘ashamed’ repeatedly. The Westminster government and the Scottish Executive tells us that the treatment of asylum seekers is ‘reserved’, i.e. ‘none of your business’. Let the Scottish Executive and the Westminster government be under no illusion that: THIS IS OUR BUSINESS AND WE WILL NOT STAND BY AND ALLOW SUCH INHUMANITY TO GO ON AGAINST OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS – EVEN IF THEY ARE ‘ASYLUM-SEEKERS’.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
If you object to what is happening right here, right now, then please show your solidarity and do something about it.
1. ORGANISE solidarity meetings. Call on your tenants’ organisation to take action.
2. DEMAND to know what your elected public servants are doing to stop the raids happening to your neighbours. Ask them to declare their position.
3. Write to the Ahmed Family's MP Paul.Martin.msp@scottish.parliament.uk or Tel.0131 348 5845 or 0141 564 1364. Address: 141 Charles Street, Glasgow G21 2QA. Also write to Michael Martin MP martinm@parliament.uk (tel): 020 7219 1651 and Constituency (tel): 0141 762 2329.
4. WRITE to First Minister Jack McConnell and demand a stop to dawn raids and the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. Call him on 0131 244 5218 or write to firstminister@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.
5. Sign the petition for an amnesty for Scottish asylum families: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?amn2005
6. FOR FURTHER INFO: email: home@paih.org Dawn raid in 15 Forge Place, Germiston, Royston, Glasgow G21 15-11-05 See Ahmed family campaign Between 6am & 7am on Friday 11 November 2005, 3 members of the Ahmed family – Farhat (40), son Faheem (19) and daughter Zoha (14), a pupil at St. Rochs Secondary School – were victims of a ‘dawn raid' a 12 strong immigration snatch squad.
Form that moment on, the family suffered a catalogue of human rights abuses that continued right up until they were forced onto a plane to Pakistan on Sunday 13 November.
When the raid took place, Mrs Ahmed’s younger son, Farhad (16) wasn’t home. He was not expected back till Monday 14 November. His mum begged immigration not to remove her without Farhad. They took her mobile phone away even though that was her only way of being contacted by Farhad. 13 year old Zoha was dragged from her bed mid-sleep less than two hours after the family began an early morning fast - part of a Muslim tradition. Mrs Ahmed and son Faheem were also forced to use the toilet in full view of immigration.
Within 20 minutes of putting in their door, immigration then forced the family into a caged van outside Forbes Place for a 17-hour journey to London. Along the way, they were given one sandwich. None of their friends or neighbours or even their lawyer knew their whereabouts. They reached London at 1.00 AM Saturday 12 November 2005 where they were locked up in a ‘detention centre’.
On Sunday 13 November 2005, immigration took the Ahmed Family to Gatwick Airport to be deported. Mrs Ahmed still had no contact with her younger son.
At 9.21 pm, a crying Mrs Ahmed phoned her neighbour. She said the immigration people had beaten up her older son Faheem (19) because he refused to board the plane without his younger brother. She claimed they took Faheem into a side-room and then threw him across the room and beat him, in full view of his mum and sister, pushing him by the neck into the floor.
Farhat Ahmed put her hands together and begged the guards to deport her with her daughter but let her son stay in London to find her younger child, and then they could deport the brothers together. A woman officer began screaming into Farhat’s face to ‘Shut up! Shut up!’. She told her to tell Faheem to go onto the plane, or else they would make sure he went to jail “forever” and “you’ll never see him again”. Farhat Ahmed went quiet and then made her son go onto the plane with her and Zoha for fear of losing both her sons.
On the plane, Mrs Ahmed used her mobile phone - which she got back after 3 days - to call her neighbour. She asked her to go to her flat and find two photos of her dead mother before the council emptied the flat and put her belongings into the rubbish.
She also asked the neighbour to look after her 16 year old son when he came back to Forbes Place on Monday. The neighbour promised she would.
The Ahmed’s is the worst case to come to public attention since the recent dawn raids on the Vucaj family on 13 September (Kingsway) and the Kupeli family on 14 October (Gorbals).
There are thousands more frightened people - like the Ahmed's, Vucaj's and the Kupeli's - living in Glasgow who are terrified they are going to be the next victims of a dawn raid.
As the horrific treatment of our fellow human beings comes to light, charities, churches and ordinary Scottish people are expressing their outrage and using the word ‘ashamed’ repeatedly.
The Westminster government and the Scottish Executive tells us that the treatment of asylum seekers is ‘reserved’, i.e. ‘none of your business’.
Let the Scottish Executive and the Westminster government be under no illusion that:
THIS IS OUR BUSINESS AND WE WILL NOT STAND BY AND ALLOW SUCH INHUMANITY TO GO ON AGAINST OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS – EVEN IF THEY ARE JUST ‘ASYLUM-SEEKERS’. WHAT YOU CAN DO
16 year old Farhad was expected back on 14-11-05 but has not returned. We fear for his safety. He has no keys or mobile phone. He still doesn’t know his family has been deported. Neighbours put up a notice on his front door telling him to go to them. But noone has heard anything. If you see or hear from Farhad, please urge him to contact his neighbours.
If you object to what is happening right here, right now, then please show your solidarity and do something about it.
1. SPEAK to your neighbour, knock on their door, ask if there is anything you can do to help.
2. ORGANISE solidarity meetings. Call on your tenants’ organisation to take action.
3. DEMAND to know what your elected public servants are doing to stop the raids happening to your neighbours. Ask them to declare their position.
4. Write to Paul.Martin.msp@scottish.parliament.uk or Tel.0131 348 5845 or 0141 564 1364. Address: 141 Charles Street, Glasgow G21 2QA. 5. Also write to Michael Martin MP martinm@parliament.uk (tel): 020 7219 1651 and Constituency (tel): 0141 762 2329.
6. WRITE to First Minister Jack McConnell and demand a stop to dawn raids and the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. Call him on 0131 244 5218 or write to firstminister@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.
7. Sign the petition for an amnesty for Scottish asylum families: http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?amn2005
FOR FURTHER INFO: email: home@paih.org Royston dawn raid on asylum family - update AHMED FAMILY - Farhat Ahmed (40), Faheem (19), Zoha (15) Constituency Representatives: Michael Martin MP & Paul Martin MSP Support the amnesty for Scottish asylum families, sign the online petition now Monday 14 November 2005 The Ahmed family, or part of them, have been deported to Pakistan, after suffering a catalogue of inhumanities which began on Friday 11 November 2005 with a dawn raid and continued right up until the family were forced onto the plane last night from Gatwick Airport. Farhad Ahmed, 16, a 4th year pupil at St Roch’s Secondary School, Glasgow is still unaware that his family has been taken from the flat in Royston and deported. His mum Farhat had no phone number for where her 16 year old was staying in London and immigration refused to release her mobile to her so that she could try to trace her son. At 9.21 pm, Farhat Ahmed called her neighbour Farina from the airport to say that her son Faheem, 19, had been beaten by security guards for refusing to board the plane without his younger brother. According to Farhat, the security guards then threw Faheem into a side-room and began beating him and pushing him by the neck into the floor in full view of his mother and sister, telling him he was going back ‘no matter what’. Farhat Ahmed begged them not to beat her son and to deport her with her daughter but let her son at least stay behind to find her other son, and then they could deport the brothers together. A woman officer was screaming repeatedly at Farhat in her face to ‘shut up! Shut up!’ and that if she did not tell him to go quietly they would make sure he went to jail "forever" and "you ll never see him again". Farhat Ahmed had no choice, she went silent and then made her son go onto the plane with her and her daughter. At 10.10 pm, Farina spoke with Farhat from the waiting plane, she had the dignity and the kindness to comfort her friend, and talked quietly with her and promised her she would watch out for Fahad when he returns from London and retrieve her two photos of her dead mother from the flat before immigration came to empty her flat of all their possessions. Since Friday when we started an online petition condemning dawn raids and calling for an amnesty for Scottish asylum families we have gathered over 700 signatures. Anger is also growing and the word ‘ashamed’ is being used repeatedly by Scottish citizens. After this latest turn of events, the Executive and the Home Office should be under no illusion that more and more ordinary Scottish citizens are going to respond to the growing calls by Scottish parliamentarians to give physical human solidarity to resist dawn raids. If there is any person out there with any power or influence atall we are begging them to use it or at least speak out on behalf of thousands of frightened people living here and now in Glasgow, the asylum capital of the UK. People are absolutely terrified in these flats that they are going to be next. The Scottish police are devolved and surely must despise doing the dirty work of the home office and the far right by carrying out these dawn raids. We call on the first Minister to instruct Strathclyde Police to arrest any immigration officers who carry out dawn raids or at the very least REFUSE to assist the immigration in carrying out these disgusting, inhumane and barbaric raids on innocent Scottish families.Scotland has an economic need for the very people we are allowing to be thrown out. 13 Nov 05: LETTER TO FIRST MINISTER Dear Mr McConnell, I am writing this to you so that you are fully aware of the barbaric inhumanities being conducted on Scottish soil - One Scotland, Many Cultures - under the guise of ‘reserved asylum policy’. As I write this, the Ahmed family, who were the victims of a dawn raid on their home in 15 Forge Place, Royston on Friday 11 November 2005, are on a 10.30 pm Gulf Air deportation flight to Pakistan after a year living in Royston, Glasgow, Michael Martin MP’s constituency. Their asylum claim is officially closed but the manner in which this family were treated is not. The Ahmed family had woken at 5 am on 11 November to fast as part of a Muslim tradition following the festival of Eid. Mrs Farhat Ahmed cooked food; they prayed then returned to bed. Her son, Fahad (16) was not home as he was in London for a Muslim service. The ‘dawn raid’ was carried out in the usual style favoured by the Home Office; a ten strong immigration snatch squad plus police invaded the home of a sleeping family between the hours of 6 and 7 am, kicking in their door because they were too frightened to open it. As soon as they entered the flat, the immigration officers took Mrs Ahmed's mobile phone off her. The phone was ringing from a worried neighbour who Farhat had managed to call just minutes earlier when she heard the door being banged on. But she was told she could make a call from London. Her son, Faheem Ahmed (19) told immigration officers that his 16 year old brother Fahad was not in the flat and was not expected back until Monday 14 November. Fahad does not have a mobile and the only way of him getting in touch with his mum was for him to phone her mobile. All of Mrs Ahmed's numbers are on the mobile phone. Still, immigration officers told her ‘that’s tough’ and refused to hand the mobile phone back or allow the family to make attempts to trace Fahad. Fahad still has no idea what has happened to his family or that they are being deported. Zoha, 14, was dragged from her bed in mid-sleep and was shaking with fear. Nothing new there. Both Mrs Ahmed and her son Faheem suffered the humiliation of an officer going with them to the tiny bathroom. The immigration squad then proceeded to remove the family within 20 minutes of entering the flat. Mrs Ahmed suffers from heart disease and a serious lung condition which requires medication. She had to beg repeatedly to be permitted to take her Muslim holly book, the Qur’an with her. Noone from their handful of friends and neighbours that they have made in Glasgow, not even their solicitor was aware of their whereabouts until Saturday morning. After speaking to the Ahmed family, I was informed that they had endured a gruelling 17 hour journey in a caged van. First they were taken to Brand Street Immigration Office, then Manchester, then to Heathrow Airport, then Gatwick Airport and then finally to Tinsley House Removal Centre at 1 am on Saturday 12 November. Mrs Ahmed found it difficult to breathe and repeatedly asked for the van door to be opened but she was refused on each occasion. During the entire journey they were given one sandwich, despite the fact they were all fasting that day. Zoha developed a kidney infection and her mother grew very ill. On Saturday I visited Forge Place and the flat where Mrs Ahmed and her family stayed. We have taped a notice on the front door of the Ahmed family’s door for Farhad asking him to go to a neighbour. I also visited other asylum seeker families in Forge Place. Everywhere I saw people merely existing, surviving on almost nothing. They deserve a medal not a dawn raid for their resilience, dignity and their lack of complaint about the conditions they live in. David Blunkett, the former Home secretary, talked about the torture test for asylum seekers in 2000, that if life was that bad in their own countries then they would easily put up with this level of misery and fear and poverty over here. Well I have rarely witnessed such horrific levels of desperation, fear and grinding poverty in your One Scotland Many cultures. Why would people put up with this if there was not good reason for them to leave their home, their family their country and everything they know? You ought to see it for yourself. I don’t think any British citizen would live in those flats given the choice. Yet the ‘asylum seekers’ living here are trying to make the best of what little they don’t have. At 12 noon on Sunday, I read the Home Office’s comment to the Sunday Herald about the fact that Farhat Ahmed faced being deported without her younger son: “We will always endeavour to keep families together, but there will inevitably be occasions where this is not possible”. (13 Nov 2005). They just don’t care, do they? At 4.45 pm on Sunday, I got a call from Mrs Ahmed’s neighbour and an asylum seeker, Farina, a single parent with three children, she informed me that the family were being taken to the airport for removal on the 10.30 pm flight despite the fact that they did not even have Fahad, 16 years old, with them and he is not even aware of what is going on. I contacted whoever I could to try to get this stopped. At 8.55 pm, Mrs Ahmed called her neighbour Farina again with a phone card. She said they were at the airport and were going to be deported. She was begging the immigration not to be deported with out Farhad. But immigration told her she and her two other children were going ‘no matter what’. Mrs Ahmed asked Farina to please watch out for her son when he returns to the flat. She also asked her to go down to her flat and find two photos of her dead mother – the only two photos she has – as everything the family own will be either binned or given to charity. At 9.21 pm, the neighbour Farina called me in tears. She informed me that Farhat called from the airport, crying herself, to say they were being taken onto the plane. Mrs Ahmed’s son, Faheem, who is only 19 told the security guards he would not go without his brother because he was only 16 and his brother needed him. Farhat said that the security guards then took Faheem into a small room and threw him across the room and began to beat him. She, Faheem’s mum, begged them please don’t beat my son, let him stay and find his brother, and deport me and my daughter, and then you can deport Faheem with my other son. No they said. Just No. At 10.10 pm, Farina spoke with Farhat from the waiting plane, she had the dignity and the kindness to comfort her friend, and talked quietly with her and promised her she would watch out for Fahad when he returns from London. This latest dawn raid and the events following it frankly turn my stomach. I was born in this country to ‘immigrant’ parents who worked all their lives to feed us and clothe us. And I feel so ashamed to hold a British passport or to be part of a country that stands by and lets this happen to other human beings because of a word called ‘reserved’. You must know like I know that this is no isolated incident – it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Glasgow is the asylum capital of the UK. Yet here in this very city, there are 12,500 asylum seekers living in a climate of permanent fear, law abiding, following every rule the Home Office sets, weekly reporting, signing, keeping their heads down, and desperate to work and stand on their two feet, and settle and contribute to this country. They are here, right now and we are supposed to pretend they don't exist because of a word called 'reserved'. I am not going to re-rehearse the economic arguments for people like the Ahmed family, the Kupeli family, the Vucaj family to be welcomed with open hearts because they are our future. What is so shocking is their quiet and persistent dignity in the face of such inhumanities as we are bearing witness to right now. I have never seen anything like it in this so called civilised country. I know what I would do if I was the First Minister and knew this was going on in the country I am supposed to be the leader of, that is the fastest emptying country in Europe. As Farina said to me earlier today, in floods of tears: “I had no shortage of money where I came from, it was because I hold my children’s lives so dear to my heart that I left everything behind for a country that respects human rights … but after what has happened to my friend, my sister really, I find it very hard right now to believe this country is about human rights”. Now we are waiting for a sixteen year old boy to come back to find the flat closed and they, his family, gone. Yours sincerely, ROBINA QURESHI DIRECTOR 12 Nov 05: Mrs Farhat Ahmed (40), her son Faheem (19) and daughter Zoha (13), a 3rd year pupil at St Roch's Secondary School, are currently being held at Tinsley house Removal Centre and are to be deported to Pakistan on a 10.30 pm flight tomorrow, Sunday 13 November 2005. Farhat's other son, Fahad (16), was in London at the time of the dawn raid and is unaware that his family was been removed for deportation. he is expected back in Royston on Monday. The family was taken between 6am and 7am on Friday 11 November 2005. Neighbours, friends, relatives and even their solicitor was unaware of their whereabouts until the early hours of Saturday morning. All of the family members had been fasting that day as part of the Muslim tradition following Eid. Farhat and her two children had got up around 5 am to eat something. They then went to sleep and less than an hour later a 12 strong immigration snatch squad put in their door and proceeded to remove the family within 20 minutes. Zoha, 14, was dragged from her bed in mid sleep and was shaking with fear. Mrs Ahmed, who wears hijab, had to beg repeatedly to be allowed to take her Quran with her. She suffers from heart disease and a serious lung condition which requires medication. She has been denied her medication in Tinsley House. Mrs Ahmed and her son Faheem suffered the humiliation of an officer insisting on accompanying each of them to the tiny bathroom. The immigration officers took Mrs Ahmed's mobile phone as soon as they entered the flat and denied her an incoming phone call from a worried neighbour who she had managed to call just minutes earlier when she heard the door being banged on. Her son, Faheem Ahmed (19) told immigration officers that his 16 year old brother Fahad was not in the flat and was not expected back until Monday 14 November. Fahad does not have a mobile and the only way of him getting in touch with his mum was to phone her mobile. All of Mrs Ahmed's numbers are on the mobile phone. Still, immigration officers refused to hand the mobile phone back or allow the family to make attempts to trace Fahad. Fahad is a fourth year pupil at St Roch's Secondary School. He has no idea what has happened to his family or that they are about to be deported without him back to Pakistan. The Ahmed family then endured a gruelling 17 hour journey in a caged van. Following the raid, they were taken to Brand Street Immigration Office, then Manchester, then to Heathrow Airport, then Gatwick Airport and then were taken finally to Tinsley House Removal Centre at 1 am on Saturday 12 November. During the entire journey they were given one sandwich. Mrs Ahmed found it difficult to breathe and repeatedly asked for the van door to be opened but she was refused on each occasion. Positive Action in Housing staff visited the Ahmed's Royston flat and taped a written notice on the front door for Farhad Ahmed (16). The note asks Farhad to contact a neighbour in the Royston flats. Farina (surname withheld), a Pakistani asylum seeker who is a friend and neighbour of Farhat's, said: "People here are terrified of what is happening every day to our friends, our neighbours. We comforted each other through our own sadness. Every day we are too upset to eat or just take a spare breath. Every night we are too scared to sleep. There is absolutely noone to help us escape from this fear. After what happened to my friend, my sister, she is good and kind to people and visited the mosque with me for prayers, and between us we have nothing, as you can see, we exist only, look at this place but we stay here because of where we can't stay in our countries, but between us we tried to make each other smile, she would cook something for me or look after me if i was ill. and i was ill, around two days before i report every week to Brand Street, i am ill. We both suffered from the constant fear but she was my strength and i find it very hard now to believe that this country is about human rights when they took my sister, my friend like this. They won't even let her take her son and he is a very quiet, good boy. and i don't know what to say to my daughter about what is happening here, is this country not for human rights? Can they really do this to us?" Robina Qureshi, Director of Positive Action in Housing, said: "I've never witnessed such levels of desperation, fear and grinding poverty as in these flats in Royston. Everywhere you see people surviving on almost nothing and still trying to make the best of it. They deserve a medal not a dawn raid. "Here is Scotland emptying of its own people, with a first minister who is gone off to Canada to get expatriates to come back here. And we know they won't, because they have a better life there. And noone is complaining about that. Yet here in this very city, the asylum capital of the UK, there are 12,500 asylum seekers, law abiding, following every rule the Home Office sets, weekly reporting, signing, keeping their heads down, and desperate to work and stand on their two feet, and settle and contribute to this country. They are here, right now and we are supposed to pretend they don't exist because of a word called 'reserved'. "What is wrong with the people in power? Why won't the Scottish Executive take a lead on this and stop the inhumane, barbaric practices emanating from Westminster's asylum policy once and for all?". Support the amnesty for Scottish asylum families, sign the online petition now 11 Nov 05: Early this morning, Friday 11 November 2005, immigration carried out a yet another dawn raid on the home of Mrs Farhat Ahmed (40) from Pakistan, and her 14 year old daughter, Zoha, a 3rd year pupil at St. Roch’s Secondary School. The family are asylum seekers from Pakistan. Farhat is severely ill with a lung condition. Nothing has been heard of her or daughter Zoha since 8 am. We have called various removal centres but there appears to be no record whatsoever of Farhat Ahmed and her daughter Zoha at any detention centre in the UK. Farhat’s relatives in Sheffield and London are extremely worried about her and her daughter’s sudden disappearance, as are her friends and neighbours in Royston. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP WRITE TO THE HOME SECRETARY F ax Charles Clarke, Home secretary on: 020 7273 3965 or if you are outside the UK on: +44 207 273 3965Or write direct: Charles Clarke Minister for Immigration Home Office 50 Queen Anne's Gate London SW1H 9AT
email clarkec@parliament.uk
John Robertson MP House of Commons Phone number: 020 7219 3000 Constituency Phone number: 0141 944 7298 Constituency Fax number: 0141 944 7121 Addresses: Constituency 131 Dalsetter Avenue Glasgow G15 8TE
Asylum is reserved but you can still write to the Secretary of State, Alastair Darling. Email Scottish.secretary@scotland.gov.uk .
EMAIL THE FIRST MINISTER
Asylum may be reserved but you could still write to Jack McConnell, the first Minister and see if you could personally take up the case. Email: jack.mcconnell.msp@scottish.parliament.uk or scottish.ministers@scotland.gov.uk Private office: Tel: 0131 244 521`8 or fax: 0131 244 6915 Pupils and teachers at Drumchapel High School have set up a campaign to keep the Vucaj Family in Scotland. The campaign has drawn up a petition and model letter (copy/amend/write your own version) addressed to Charles Clarke the Home Secretary, which they are asking everyone to print off, fill them in and get as many other people as possible to do the same, and return them to the campaign office. When they have collected enough signatures, the campaign will present them to the Minister.
Let your friends know about the 'Vucaj Family Campaign' and get them to
visit their web page read about the case and download the Campaign
leaflet, model letter and petition. http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine62/vucaj.htm a Vucaj Vucaj Family Campaign C/o Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees c/o Fire Brigade Union 52 St Enoch Square Glasgow G1 |
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