Mohammed Arrian fights deportation
Graham Wroe | 01.01.2006 19:05 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | Sheffield
Mohammed Arrian is to be deported to Afghanistan in two weeks time. This is despite the fact that all the rest of his family are happily settled in Sheffield and all have indefinate leave to remain in this country. The Home Office are even refusing to talk to Richard Caborn, his MP about the situation.
Mohammed Arrian is to be deported to Afghanistan in two weeks time. This is despite the fact that all the rest of his family are happily settled in Sheffield and all have indefinate leave to remain in this country. The Home Office are even refusing to talk to Richard Caborn, his MP about the situation. Mohammed fears for his life if he is sent back to Afghanistan.
There is a meeting to organise a campaign to fight this deportation at 2.30pm on Monday 2nd Jan at Victoria Methodist Church,Stafford Road, S2. You will be able to meet members of his family, hear more about the story and help organise a campaign.Please come along.
Buses 94,95,96,120,123 go up City Road. Get off at the junction with Fitzwalter Road and walk down Fitzwalter Road to the church. Or buses 41 and 21 go up Granville Road. Get off outside the main entrance to Norfolk Park and walk along Stafford Road to the church
There is a meeting to organise a campaign to fight this deportation at 2.30pm on Monday 2nd Jan at Victoria Methodist Church,Stafford Road, S2. You will be able to meet members of his family, hear more about the story and help organise a campaign.Please come along.
Buses 94,95,96,120,123 go up City Road. Get off at the junction with Fitzwalter Road and walk down Fitzwalter Road to the church. Or buses 41 and 21 go up Granville Road. Get off outside the main entrance to Norfolk Park and walk along Stafford Road to the church
Graham Wroe
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Afghanistan is Safe???
02.01.2006 20:06
Thanks for posting that Graham. Mohammed Arrian has been told by the Home Office that they do not believe that there is a threat to his life if he is "removed" (ie forcibly deported) to Afghanistan.
So Afghanistan joins Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo in being "safe" places to be deported to. Strange then that the Foreign Office advises against all or "all but essential" travel to these places. Or are the lives of UK business people and tourists valued higher than those of Iraqi, Kurdish, Afghan and Congolese people?
We have 15 days to stop Mohammed Arrian's deportation.
So Afghanistan joins Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo in being "safe" places to be deported to. Strange then that the Foreign Office advises against all or "all but essential" travel to these places. Or are the lives of UK business people and tourists valued higher than those of Iraqi, Kurdish, Afghan and Congolese people?
We have 15 days to stop Mohammed Arrian's deportation.
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Mohammed Arrian deportation
04.01.2006 16:39
a town which wishes to improve its image. The Library on City Road seems rather moribund
at the moment but during 2004 a group of ex-patriates formed a chess club to meet there
on Wednesday evenings. I played some interesting games with Mohammed and his brothers.
These people were actually trying to start something where local people could join in.
Chess is commonly known in Persia and Afghanistan, and indeed it is now being encouraged
in several countries where it was previously banned (Iran for example). It seems that
many people over here think that social development consists of the installation of CCTV
cameras to search out for bad behaviour rather than encouraging people to think.
Games such as chess are a useful means of intereacting in a meaningful way with people
who have no common language. I remember that in my own travels in Iran and Afghanistan
it was easy to find and meet chess players: far easier in fact than it would be in the
UK. One of the reasons for the failure of the chess club was the frequent inavailability
of the key holder of the City library building. This may well seem a familiar problem to
some of those reading this article.
Tony Goddard
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No, Afghanistan is not safe
07.01.2006 20:24
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