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20/02/2004
Hoey to push Home Secretary on Zimbabwean NI asylum
Belfast born MP, Kate Hoey is set to meet Home Secretary, David Blunkett over plans to fast-track the position of Zimbabweans who have applied for political asylum in Northern Ireland.
Ms Hoey, who has been actively campaigning against human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, told a management committee of the Zimbabwe Solidarity Campaign this week in Belfast that she was concerned about the delay the British government was taking to grant Zimbabweans asylum in view of the deteriorating situation in that country.
"There is need to fast-track the Zimbabwean political asylum seekers' issue because it is taking too long to be approved," said Hoey, who went on a clandestine mission to Zimbabwe in July 2003.
In future, she said, a leading Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activist should come to Belfast and address Zimbabweans on the political crisis facing the country.
She would try and help facilitate these visits, she added.
(MB)
Ms Hoey, who has been actively campaigning against human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, told a management committee of the Zimbabwe Solidarity Campaign this week in Belfast that she was concerned about the delay the British government was taking to grant Zimbabweans asylum in view of the deteriorating situation in that country.
"There is need to fast-track the Zimbabwean political asylum seekers' issue because it is taking too long to be approved," said Hoey, who went on a clandestine mission to Zimbabwe in July 2003.
In future, she said, a leading Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) activist should come to Belfast and address Zimbabweans on the political crisis facing the country.
She would try and help facilitate these visits, she added.
(MB)
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