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January 25, 2008
A Life Saved!
I can't really afford it, but I have just bought and opened a bottle of the best bubbly I can find in Shepherds Bush. Jahongir Sidikov has phoned me to say that the Home Office has just granted him asylum. You will recall that Jahongir had to physically resist deportation from Harmondsworth Detention Centre to certain torture and near certain death in Uzbekistan.
Jahongir has no doubt, and nor do I, that the actions of readers of this blog were crucial in preventing this appalling proposed deportation. Special thanks go to the MPs you activated. Several deserve thanks, but Bob Marshall Andrews deserves a really special mention.
It is not yet clear whether the Home Office now accept as a matter of policy that it is not possible to deport dissidents into the hands of the evil Uzbek regime. That is a point you might wish to take up with your MPs.
But for now, thank you and bloody well done. I am going to get rat-arsed.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/11/britain_institu.html
Posted by craig on January 25, 2008 5:35 PM in the category Uzbekistan
Comments
Fantastic news. Sincerest congrats to all, but particularly to you. Here's hoping this represents a genuine policy shift.
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at January 25, 2008 7:07 PM
Brilliant news - and it's Burns night as well. Where's that Islay malt I've been saving ...?
Posted by: kazbel at January 25, 2008 7:28 PM
Incredible good news and many thanks for keeping up the pressure and blogging about it.
Posted by: Geoff Jones at January 25, 2008 7:29 PM
Well done.
But, 'best bubbly in Shepherds Bush'?
You'll never get rat-arsed on Tizer...
Posted by: Chuck Unsworth at January 25, 2008 8:19 PM
Hooray!
Posted by: Strategist at January 26, 2008 1:38 AM
Well done Craig. That really has brightened my day. I have no doubt that, absent your efforts, he would have been back in Uzbekistan by now. It's remarkable how little victories (relatively speaking) over the morass of official blindness, stupidity and self-serving mendacity, can lift the spirits.
Posted by: Sabretache at January 26, 2008 8:08 AM
Great news.
Posted by: johnf at January 26, 2008 12:35 PM
Cracker news folks, more power to your elbows!
Posted by: andy cyan at January 26, 2008 7:25 PM
Bloody marvellous news.
I got an email THIS week from the leader of the opposition that was pathetic (initial email sent on 23/11/07), especially next to the concern shown by my own local MP.
I had been wondering what had happened to Jahongir and I am absolutely thrilled that he has been granted asylum.
Posted by: girtholomew at January 27, 2008 1:27 AM
Bloody marvellous news.
I got an email THIS week from the leader of the opposition that was pathetic (initial email sent on 23/11/07), especially next to the concern shown by my own local MP.
I had been wondering what had happened to Jahongir and I am absolutely thrilled that he has been granted asylum.
Posted by: girtholomew at January 27, 2008 1:30 AM
Well done Craig. You will pass muster at the judgment day.
Posted by: George Dutton at January 28, 2008 12:07 PM
Great news Craig. Thanks also to my MP Dari Taylor who also said she would look into the case.
Posted by: stevie at January 28, 2008 1:58 PM
Very good news, and thanks for the update, Craig.
Posted by: Raven at January 28, 2008 9:10 PM
Fantastic news! - I was wondering what had happened. I recently got a vague and unconvincing reply from the home office via my MP, but delighted if that minor prodding added to the total.
Posted by: elfknight at January 30, 2008 11:35 AM
Hello Mr Murray, I'd like to get in touch with you and I've been sending you some emails and still haven't got any responce.
Posted by: carlito at April 4, 2008 2:29 PM
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