Demonstration at Dungavel, 7 May 2016 @Etza_Hdez
Shaida Mahmoodi is Kurdish. She fled Eastern Kurdistan last year and arrived in Glasgow five months ago. I met her and her brother as I was volunteering at the Unity Centre, Glasgow, an organisation that provides practical support and unconditional solidarity to asylum seekers and other migrants. Shaida and her brother have fingerprints in Germany, they say they were taken by force when Shaida and her brother had no knowledge of where they were. They told me that they continued their journey to the UK because they simply were not safe.
Shaida has been detained and faces removal this Monday 23rd May to Dortmund, Germany. Meanwhile, her brother signs as requested at the Home Office every week. No such request has been made to return him to Germany and no attempts made to detain him.
