Brown orders review of asylum rules for Iraqi interpreters

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

12.30pm update

Brown orders review of asylum rules for Iraqi interpreters

Alexandra Topping and agencies
Wednesday August 8, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

The government is to review the cases of Iraqi interpreters
for the British army who were told they would not receive
any special treatment if applying for asylum in the UK,
Downing Street said today.

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has ordered that the
cases of the 91 translators should be looked at again.

The translators and their families had been told they would
have to apply for asylum in the normal way - by registering
when they arrived in the UK - despite appeals from senior
army officers.

-snip-

A government spokesman said Britain was "extremely grateful
for the service of locally employed staff in Iraq" and took
their security "very seriously".

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2144091,00.html

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[MasonJar]

1. Thank you, Gordon Brown