June 2004
Some stories
Where is my family?
A Sudanese asylum seeker, 39-year-old Tariq Abdulrahman Mohammed, who is currently detained in Bijlmerbajes deportation prison in Amsterdam, is desperate to find his wife and children, whom he last saw when he was in the UK - before he was deported back to the Netherlands.
25 June 2004 (207 words)
Pressure grows on Gypsy site after BNP elected
Gypsies at the Payne's Lane site are being threatened with prison by Epping Forest District Council if they do not leave. Three BNP councillors were recently elected promising to evict Gypsies.
24 June 2004 (610 words)
Royal Mail and racial bullying
On 25 May 2004, Mahmood Siddiqui, a 59-year-old postal worker at the Royal Mail sorting office in Harlow, was awarded £178,542 in compensation for racial discrimination by an employment tribunal.
17 June 2004 (630 words)
Another Black death in psychiatric custody
On May 28, 24-year-old Azrar Ayub, a patient at the secure Edenfield Unit at Prestwich hospital near Manchester was found dead after being sedated and restrained by staff at the hospital.
16 June 2004 (444 words)
BNP bags 800,000 votes but no ticket to Brussels
The BNP has failed to make a major electoral breakthrough, partly because the anti-immigrant vote was split with UKIP and partly because of a strong, united anti-BNP campaign.
15 June 2004 (710 words)
Work regime for asylum seekers in legal limbo
David Blunkett has tabled a last-minute package of amendments to the Asylum and Immigration Bill currently passing through parliament, including a measure forcing unpaid community work onto rejected asylum seekers who cannot be deported.
9 June 2004 (603 words)
Wrongly accused Man Utd. fans call for apology
Manchester United supporters have been helping Iraqi Kurdish refugees who were wrongly accused of plotting to bomb Old Trafford.
3 June 2004 (759 words)
Protests against separation call for Roma children
Nobel Prize-winning writer Günter Grass is among the first 700 signatories to a petition calling for the resignation of Eric Van der Linden, the EU ambassador to Slovakia. A month ago, Van der Linden called for Roma (Gypsy) children to be forcibly separated from their parents during the week and put in boarding schools.
2 June 2004 (464 words)