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...image of Muslims, was also unhappy. "The raid was very aggressive, a mosque is after all no different from a church or a synagogue," he says. The fact that the last few weeks' raids and arrests have all involved North Africans, many of them Algerians and many of them asylum seekers, could have a worrying backlash. Sekkoum warns there are up to 100 Algerian asylum seekers in Britain said by the community to have committed terrorist acts in Algeria. Already there are voices in Britain demanding a more rigorous system for removing failed asylum applicants. "We Algerians are killed...
...first official attempt to measure the prevalence of mental illness in the U.S. came in 1840, when the Census included a question on "idiocy/insanity." From that single category flowered many more disorders, but each asylum classified them differently. The DSM was first published in 1952 so that "stress reaction" would mean the same in an Arkansas hospital as it does in a Vermont...
Since China opened its doors to the West in 1978, thousands of Chinese intellectuals have left their homeland for the West in search of higher education, political asylum, freedom or the pursuit of happiness. Among them, there is no shortage of authors...
...seemed a straightforward operation. Immigration officials and police, unarmed as usual in Britain, broke into an apartment in a run-down north Manchester suburb last Tuesday, seeking a 23-year-old Algerian who had gone missing after his bid for asylum was rejected. He was to be detained, pending deportation, under anti-terrorism legislation. Instead of one man inside the apartment, however, the police found three, all of them North African. The detectives immediately checked the identities of the other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north...
...locations where they will be free from intimidation by Saddam Hussein's regime. But the resolution provided no guidelines on the mechanics of such a process - where such interviews might take place, how the scientists and their families might be shepherded out of Iraq, how any request for political asylum would be handled, and so on. Although Cyprus has agreed to host the interviews, it has refused to grant asylum to Iraqi scientists and their families - although Britain and the U.S. have previously offered to take them...