Reprieve for Nigerian asylum seeker
- Title
- Reprieve for Nigerian asylum seeker
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 7 Dec 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:06:04
- Description
- Claude Moraes, Director of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants on the granting a five day reprieve period in which lawyers for 19-year-old Nigerian student Ade Onibyo who has been living in Essex since he was 11 can apply for a judicial review of the decision to deport him; and on the government view of Nigerian refugees and stance on immigration and asylum in general and their asylum bill. Moraes rejects Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe’s statement cases are judged on their individual merits. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Claude Moraes
- Keywords
- Deportation; Parliamentary bills; UK; Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; Immigrants; Refugees; Migration policy; Legal decisions; Political refugees; Political activists; Nigeria; Asylum seekers; Judicial review; Ann Widdecombe; Ade Onibiyo
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