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Here's a photograph that will brighten your day.

This is Scottish Refugee Council head Sabir Zazai, who came to the country as a refugee from Afghanistan in 1999.

He's standing in sunny Edinburgh, with some of the 20 refugee women from Afghanistan who have just arrived on visas to study medicine at Scottish universities.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

#FreeAfghanWomen
#RefugeesWelcome
#Scotland

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#scotland #refugeeswelcome #freeafghanwomen

"Even the sun came out today to greet the 20 female medical students that arrived in Scotland from Afghanistan, thanks to the efforts of Linda Norgrove Foundation and Scottish universities.

Through their forthcoming achievements, the girls will prove the Taliban ban on education very wrong."

Sabir Zazai,
Scottish Refugee Council.

#FreeAfghanWomen
#LetAfghanWomenLearn
#RefugeesWelcome

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#refugeeswelcome #freeafghanwomen #letafghanwomenlearn

One year ago today, a handful of people in London saw an immigration raid happening in their neighbourhood and intervened by blocking the "snatch van" intended to use to spirit away their neighbours. Soon it seemed like everyone in Peckham was out standing with them, surrounding the would-be kidnapperss and their police escort. After a tense stand off, the kidnappers and coppers backed down and were unceremoniously run out of the neighbourhood!
#RefugeesWelcome
#NoOneIsIllegal, #YourBordersKill
About six anti-fascists blockade an immigration raid van in Peckham, south London.
About two dozen anti-fascists block a immigration raid van and police escort in Peckham, south London.
Hundreds of residents in Peckham, South London refuse to let an immigration raid kidnap their neighbours, sending the would-be kidnappers & their police escort packing.
#refugeeswelcome #nooneisillegal #yourborderskill

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