Delshad Namiq Zorab Back in Doncaster where he belongs

"Released but still under threat: Delshad Namiq Zorab from Iraqi Kurdistan (and Doncaster!) was released from Campsfield IRC on Thursday 26th after 10 days - despite having an ongoing fresh asylum claim. A condition of his release was that he wear an electronic tag and report twice a week to UKBA Vulcan House in Sheffield.

"Why do they do this? I am not a criminal, I am not Saddam Hussain or George Bush" Delshad asked. The threat of deportation still looms, despite Delshad being an active member of the banned Worker Communist Party of Iraq, suffering persecution in Kurdistan and Iraq, and further harassment in the UK for his political activity. The campaign for his right to remain in the UK will continue."
Background: Release Delshad Zorab and grant him asylum in the UK

Assia, Athmane and Nouha have left the UK
"A Brighton family was forcibly deported to Algeria last week on an Air Algérie flight from Heathrow. The first attempt to deport them on a British Airways flight three days before had failed, allegedly because there was 'a problem with their tickets.' Both times campaigners from Brighton and London gathered at the airport and leafleted crew members and passengers to try and get them to protest on board, which may explain why the deportation was cancelled the first time."
Background: Brighton Family to be Deported to Algeria

Online petition supporting lesbian and gay asylum seekers
Online petition to Gordon Brown supporting lesbian and gay asylum seekers is in its final week and we are writing to ask for a final push for its support from you. The deadline is 7 March.

The signatures currently stand at 4,000. They include a number of prominent individuals such as the actors Simon Callow, Ian Flintoff and Cathy Tyson, musicians Andrew Oldham and Tom Robinson, playwright Jonathan Harvey, Green MEP Caroline Lucas, Conservative MEP John Bowis, Labour MEPs Eluned Morgan, Claude Moraes and Glenys Kinnock, Green MEP Jean Lambert, Mick Houghton, Secretary Greater London Association of Trade Union Councils, Chair of The Gender Trust Rebecca Dittman, authors Neil Forsyth and Bob Cant, activist Peter Tatchell, architect Yvonne Dean, Professors Ken Mortimer MBE and A.P.M. Coxon, former Cambridge Mayor Jennie Bailey, London Assembly Member Darren Johnson, LibDem MPs Lynne Featherstone and Jo Swinson, Labour MPs Celia Barlow, Lorely Burt and Tom Brake and former Minister Stephen Twigg. As well, a large group of signatorees are Christian ministers.

The petition @ http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Stopdeportinggay/ was initiated by the Reverend Walter Attwood when the young Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi's case was in the news. Unfortunately the position of the Home Office has not changed and they continue to insist that gays and lesbians can be sent back to unsafe countries 'so long as they are discrete'. It was only due to the massive publicity which Mehdi's case engendered that he was saved.