The Defence Committee Fighting To Prevent The Deportation Of A Young Asian Housewife From Luton Are Now Seeking A Writ Against The Home Office

Report on efforts to enable a Bangladeshi woman to remain with her husband and children in the UK.

In Luton, a man and woman with two young girls cross the road together and enter a house where they take off their coats. The girls sit together wearing identical jumpers. These interviews were filmed to accompany an Anglia Television news story that a Defence Committee is seeking a writ against the Home Office to prevent the deportation of the girls’ mother, Rozena Ali, described as a young Asian housewife, who sits quietly with eyes downcast throughout the conversation. Mr Ali describes the decision of the Home Office to deport his wife to Bangladesh as ‘very disgraceful, ruthless, heartless’. Anglia Television reporter Rebecca Atherstone asks Mr Ali what will happen to the children if Mrs Ali is deported. He says that as well as the two girls aged four and five he has three other children at school. The interviewer asks Mr Ali if he can ask his wife how she feels, but the edited video then moves on to an interview with Mr Akbar Dad Khan. Mr Khan says that the community is determined to keep Rozena in the UK as Mr Ali and Rozena have not been treated fairly. He says this would have been handled differently if Mr Ali were a while British citizen. The community want the Ali family to remain together. This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Immigrants; Deportation; Families; Racism

Additional Description

The first name of Mrs Ali does not appear in the Anglia TV description of this news story – the form Rozena is used in the catalogue record, but her name could be Rozeena or Rozina. Mr Akbar Dad Khan appears in other Anglia TV videos of this period representing the Pakistani Welfare Association / Pakistan Kashmir Welfare Association in Luton.