Proceeding contribution from David Leslie Taylor (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 December 2008. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Christians in Iraq.
Christians in Iraq
I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this long-awaited and long-delayed debate. Does he agree that the half of Christians who have left Iraq have done so because of persecution, the abuse of human rights and so on? Yet when they apply for asylum in countries such as our own, they are far too often classified as economic migrants. They would love to go back to the jobs that they had and the businesses that they ran. Does he agree that something needs to happen in the upper echelons of our own Government so that people are classified correctly when they apply for asylum in this country from the awful conditions that they have had to endure in Iraq?
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- 2008-09
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- Westminster Hall
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- Asylum Human rights Iraq Discrimination Politics and government Religion Religious freedom Christianity
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