CITY AND ISLINGTON COLLEGE STUDENTS' SUCCESS
- Session: 2005-06
- Date tabled: 26.05.2005
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
That this House congratulates Abdul Aziz Turay and Robel Kahsay on their recent awards for outstanding achievements in their studies at City and Islington College; further notes the welcome support to the students given by the Highbury and Islington Express; further notes that Abdul Turay, aged 19 years, fled his native Liberia, where he had been forced to serve as a child soldier; notes that Robel Kahsay, aged 18 years, was detained and tortured by the authorities in Ethiopia because of his father's political activities; and calls on the Home Office to ensure that both students' asylum applications are dealt with swiftly and sympathetically.