Afia must stay!
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Community policing - Handsworth style ey don't just tell you the time.. Th AFIA Begum, a 19 year old Bangladeshi woman, and her one year old daughter were granted an entry certificate in January to join her husband in Britain. But then in March her husband was killed in a fire that devastated a slum tenament in Brick Lane, East London. When Afia arrived at Heathrow in June, she was told, 'You'll have to go, your circumstances have changed.' The responsibility for her husband's death can clearly be laid at the door of the GLC and Tower Hamlets council whose racist housing policy forces Bangladeshis into overcrowded slums where the risk of fire due to unsafe heating is great.
After allowing Afia a short stay in Britain to sort out her husband's belongings the Home Office now intend to deport her. The 50-strong picket of the Home Office on October 7 gave the message loud and clear: 'Afia must stay!' The picket, supported by local councillors for the Brick Lane area, handed in a petition with over 4,000 names collected in just a few wee (s.
Afia's is just ‹ ne of many deportation cases which the Home Office order under racist immigration laws. This campaign must be rollowed with a tight against all deportations Get your YS to send a message of support to Afia: c/o 36, Bradmore House, Jamaica Street, London E1. [For information ring 01-790-4937] Put a motion to YS regional conference calling on the YS to or: ganise activity around this and all other deportation cases.