Home Office criticised over asylum rejections

Title

Home Office criticised over asylum rejections

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:05:20

Description

Report on criticism of the UK Home Office record on granting asylum to political refugees from Eastern Europe following a series of high profile deportations and asylum rejections including Romanian Stancu Papusoiui and the Starosta family from Bedford. Speaking are: Razo Marzotic(?), spokesman for an unidentified refugee group (poss. European Liaison Group); Dan Stanescu(?), British Romanian Association; Reverend Andrew Warburton. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Razo Marzotic(?); Dan Stanescu(?); Andrew Warburton

Keywords

Deportation; Government; UK; Migration policy; Communism; Czechoslovakia; Political refugees; Eastern Europe; Yugoslavia; Romania; Asylum seekers; Stancu Papusoiu; Slavek Starosta; Jara Starosta

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