Mohammad Hussain dies of cancer following 8 years struggling to gain refugee statusby INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRAQ REFUGEES-IFIRAppeal for funds to send Mohammad Hussain?s body home to be buried The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) is sorry to inform you that one of our comrades Mohammad Hussain died of cancer on Sunday 3rd August. [...]

Dignity Not Detention! Full report on Indymedia (follow link for background, more reports and photographs): http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/384688.html Asylum seekers, refugees, trade unionists and supporters from all over the North marched from the Home Office in Sheffield to Lindholme Detention centre near Doncaster between 26-28th October. The marchers were demanding “The right to work for asylum seekers” [...]

Join us as we march on Sunday 28th October from the Home Office in Sheffield to the Detention Centre at Lindholme to protest against the treatment of asylum seekers in this country. Additional demonstrations in Sheffield and Doncaster during the weekend. Friday 26th 12 noon: Demonstrate @ Milton House, Home Office (Charter Row, Sheffield S1 [...]