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FRIENDS of student refugees spokesman Elias “Lord” Apetsi headed to the Home Office in London yesterday to protest against his sudden detention and imminent deportation.
Mr Apetsi had just been elected NUS Scotland officer for asylum-seekers and refugees when he was reported missing.
Fellow students at Strathclyde University eventually found that he had been detained by the UK Border Agency and they travelled to London yesterday to stage a protest.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE