News 2020
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30 June 2020
Home Office Minister Chris Philp Claims NO Covid 19 Cases
In his response , on Monday 29 June 2020, to an urgent question from Alison Thewliss MP about support for asylum seekers, Chris Philp MP, Home Office Minister said: “Among those people accommodated in hotels there has not been a single confirmed case of coronavirus and therefore the steps…
29 June 2020
Park Inn Asylum Seekers Commend Bravery of Police Officer
Positive Action in Housing was among those who raised concerns after Mears moved asylum seekers from self-contained accommodation to hotels. A press conference held by the charity heard that some of the asylum seekers staying there were “desperate and vulnerable”. The asylum seekers said many of them had…
27 June 2020
Park Inn Tragedy
Yesterday’s tragic incident in Glasgow – where one man was killed and six people including a police officer were injured -made headlines news around the world. It happened just yards away, on the very street where our office is based. The Park Inn tragedy underlines our concerns about…
14 June 2020
Adnan’s Journey
Adnan Walid Elbi, a Syrian asylum seeker, died in Room 50 of the Mclays Guest House in Glasgow earlier this year. The Mears Group, a Home Office sub contracted asylum landlord, forcibly moved him there during the Global Pandemic and Lockdown. Adnan’s family were left devastated by his death. …
5 June 2020
After George Floyd: How to be an anti racist ally
This week has seen protests worldwide in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. People of all colours and all political parties have joined the protests in America. Globally, people now recognise we can’t go on without addressing the problems of systemic racism and police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter began in 2013 after…
14 May 2020
Appeal for donations to pay for Glasgow burial of Adnan Olbeh, 30, of Al Suwayda, Syria
Latest update can be found on this Facebook post: *** More info: https://www.paih.org/appeal-for-donations-to-pay-for-dignified-muslim-funeral-for-adnan-olbeh-30-syria/ Donate: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13165#!/DonationDetails For other ways to donate go to www.positiveactionh.org/donate This (Sadaqa) Appeal aims to raise £2,730 towards the costs of Muslim burial of 30 year old…
13 May 2020
Letter to the First Minister About Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers”
Coronavirus: Letter to Scotland’s First MinisterDownload Letter to the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon asking the Scottish Government to investigate why the Mears Group, in Glasgow, the largest and most densely populated city in Scotland, forcibly moved up to 400 vulnerable men, women and children from their homes…
11 May 2020
Coronavirus: Letter to the Home Secretary About the Death of Adnan Olbeh and the Treatment of “Hotel Asylum Seekers” in Glasgow.
letter to home secretary 11 May 2020Download We have today written to the Home Secretary to: • Urge her to restore the weekly allowance of £35.50 to Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers” and to move people back into self-contained accommodation before a further tragedy occurs. Our greatest fear…
11 May 2020
Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers” and the “unexplained” death of Syrian refugee Adnan Olbeh
Normally we would send out a “press statement”, but this time we are publishing only to our web page and social media in protest against the below the line comments about this young man’s death in an article in The Glasgow Times. There’s a…
22 April 2020
Glasgow asylum seekers’ lives put at risk as Home Office cuts financial support and Mears puts people into hotels without social distancing in place
More than 300 men and women seeking asylum in Glasgow have been moved over the past ten days into city centre hotels by the private housing provider Mears, which is subcontracted by the Home Office. Amongst them, are many vulnerable people, including single women , families, pregnant women, young people, survivors of…
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