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This blog gives you the inside story of dealing with the UK asylum system and also supports Amnesty’s "still human – still here" campaign. We will blog about injustice, tragedy, campaigning, hope, perseverance and friendship
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Manukyan family in danger
07 January 2010 at 18:22 by sara_hall
As many of you know Amnesty has been campaigning for ages against the policy of forced destitution of asylum seekers.
In case you wondered what it feels like to be made destitute by a government you were hoping would protect you against the persecution in your own country, I suggest you get on facebook and follow the heart-breaking experience of ...
Supreme Court news
06 November 2009 at 20:27 by garett222
It was a long wait before we heard when my case would be heard in the Supreme Court. But finally today we got the news that the date is fixed for 10th, 11th and 12th May next year, with the judgment probably being handed down in October.
Of course I shall not be able to say anything but I am certainly ...
How do I pass my time?
06 November 2009 at 20:08 by garett222
Everyone who is an asylum seeker knows that it is not an easy life. If you have suffered violence your confidence is taken away and life is not the same as it used to be before you had to leave your country.
Many asylum seekers suffer from depression and post traumatic stress disorder. I am lucky that I am able to ...
Account of bail hearing
06 November 2009 at 19:29 by garett222
Quite a lot of time has gone by since the day of the bail hearing, and quite a lot has happened since then. The worst thing about going all the way to Leeds – about 70 miles away – was arriving to find that no one was expecting me. It took them nearly two hours to find out that there ...
Is this the power of twitter or the power of the law?
31 August 2009 at 19:32 by sara_hall
Last week I was in for a shock: Anselme Noumbiwa, the first known person to tweet from immigration detention in the UK, was detained on a routine reporting appointment and issued with removal directions.
I really didn't get it. He had produced a medico-legal report about his appalling torture in Cameroon. The report was commissioned by the Medical ...