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RefugeesSchool arrest will terrify other asylum seekers
by Simon Gaskell, South Wales Echo Mar 26 2011 A HEADMASTER from a Cardiff school is to meet the UK Border Agency to discuss how one of his pupils was arrested when school was in...
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RefugeesFailed claims are won on appeal
Paul Maley, National security correspondent From: The Australian March 25, 2011 MORE than half of all failed refugee claims are being overturned on review, suggesting there are major inconsistencies in the way asylum cases are...
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RefugeesAfghans to be deported after bids rejected
Sally Neighbour | The Australian | March 25, 2011 DOZENS of failed Afghan asylum-seekers are facing deportation after the federal government persuaded authorities in Kabul to agree to their forced repatriation, despite fears for their...
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ArtExhibition with photos by youth from Bamiyan
On 31 March 2011 the opening of the exhibition Fragments of Tradition, Beauty and Hope, Photographs by 13 young men and women from Bamiyan takes place at 16.00 hours in the Prince Claus Fund Gallery....
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GenocideAfghanistan’s oppressed Hazaras dread Taliban return
By Emmanuel Duparcq (AFP) YAKAWLANG, Afghanistan — Ibrahim still has vivid nightmares about the slaughter on the morning of January 11, 2001 that he miraculously escaped. Pumped up by victory after seizing control of Ibrahim’s...
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RefugeesAsylum seeker’s eleventh hour reprieve
Thursday 17 March 2011 Protesters make a final plea for Reza YosefiA SHEFFIELD asylum seeker has won an eleventh-hour reprieve from being deported to a country with which he claims he has no links. Reza...
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RefugeesAfghan asylum seeker has been found dead at an immigration detention centre in Queensland
March 18, 2011 – 12:21AM A 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been found dead at an immigration detention centre in Queensland. The Department of Immigration confirmed the body of the asylum seeker was discovered in...
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RefugeesAFGHAN CITIZENS BEATEN IN DETENTION AT UKRAINE AIRPORT
16 March 2011 Detained asylum-seekers should be given access to lawyers and the UNHCR © UNHCRAmnesty International has condemned the mistreatment of eight Afghan citizens awaiting deportation from Ukraine, who are being beaten by border...
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VideosGiant Buddha at Bamiyan Afghanistan, ca. 1938
This is a clip from a 1938 color documentary from the ‘Thaw Expedition’ along the Silk Road, produced by the Esso corporation and distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service, showing the Great Buddha at Bamiyan....
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NewsSympathy From Bamiyan to the People of Japan
Youth in Bamiyan took out a sympathy rally for the victims of Japan quake today in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Many youth marched to the top hill in front of the destroyed Buddha statues and held banners...
By Omid Jafari