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Iranian mother and daughter facing imminent deportation

MULE | 02.10.2009 13:00 | Migration

A campaign is underway to prevent the deportation of a 16 year old Iranian girl and her mother. They are currently being held 150 miles outside of their home in Salford at the notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, where they have been for over three weeks.

Their asylum claim has been refused for the second time despite their lives being at serious risk in Iran. On Thursday morning mother and daughter were notified by the Home Office that they must board a flight on Sunday back to Iran. With just one working day’s notice, Manchester based human rights organisation RAPAR have been working furiously with the Medical Justice Network to save them from deportation and immediate danger.

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Lies about Iran

03.10.2009 15:35

I don't understand - Iran is a lovely place and totally free and fair. Why do you allow these NeoZioCON leeches to tell us what we don't want to hear? Surely you should be hiding the terrible lies these so called asylum seekers (really Zionist agents in the pay of the CIA and Mossad) are telling about Iran, which is in fact a paradise on Earth and last anti-imperialist redoubt led by the friend of the people, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad!

Astrid Essed

What campaign?

04.10.2009 21:44

Where exactly is this so-called campaign to free the family from deportation. the article in The Mule does not even give the surname of the family let alone the Home office reference number. are we all supposed to phone the number given to get involved in the campaign? is it a secret campaign or a public campaign?

All the information required should be given so that everyone can get involved in the so-called campaign.

The hypocrisy of the British government in denouncing human rights abuses in Iran and sabre-rattling for war in the name of 'peace', but deporting people including children, fleeing those very abuses back to Iran, should also be highlighted and condemned by this 'campaign'. The real immediate enemy of this Iranian family is the racist British government and its oppressive immigration policies.

Peter Malo