[Imc-uk-features] feature proposal

[frilby at riseup.net]

i propose this for manchester and the repression &/or migration pages.

phil

Mansoor Hassan Must Stay

An investigative journalist and NUJ member, Mansoor Hassan fled Pakistan
two years ago. There as joint editor of an Urdu language magazine Crime,
he exposed corruption and criminal activities amongst the business
community and within the political establishment itself.

After implicating a senior politician in an honour killing Mansoor was
shot at and his house was burned down. He exposed a company owned by the
Minister of Agriculture that sold adulterated pesticides and substandard
cottonseed to farmers, which led to his being beaten up and his family
threatened by the secret services and the police. A known criminal shot at
Mansoor after he wrote an article about him.

But the UK government, while accepting that Mansoor had been subjected
threatened, attacked and shot at, described these experiences merely as
“anxiety” and claimed that he would be “perfectly safe somewhere else in
Pakistan” and that he was “not at any on-going risk”.

In Manchester Mansoor has worked as a volunteer with the British Red Cross
and a refugee orientation programme.

Reports:
Mansoor Hassan and Family Defence Campaign
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2004/11/301420.html

 Stop the deportation of Mansoor Hassan and his family
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2004/11/300982.html