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Nasreen Akhtar's final appeal has been postponed from October 19 to October 23 at 11 am at Thanet House in London. This is Nasreen's last chance of appeal against her threatened deportation from the Home Office.

Nasreen has been in this country for three years, since she came from Pakistan to live with her husband Abdul Majid. When she arrived her marriage had to be registered in English law. This process-took almost a year, by which time her husband had thrown her out of the house. So the marriage W3S never registered. She was 7 months pregnant by him then and she went to stay near her sister. After six months Nasreen applied for an extension to her visa, her daughter having been born by then. The Home Office refused, on the grounds that the marriage had not been finally registered in English law and Nasreen was no longer living with her husband. But in the eyes of Nasreen's family and under Muslim law she is still married. And Abdul Majid has made no attempt to divorce her.

Nasreen has already appealed against her deportation in March of this year. In May the adjudicator, a MI P.P. Simpson, dismissed her appeal declaring that Nasreen had "to a great extent brought her troubles upon herself"!

Threat The appeal in London to the Immigration Tribunal is her last chance to fight the Home Office's threat of deportaton, SO it's important that there is a large picket of the hearing at 11 am at Thanet House. The Friends of Nasreen Akhtar are appealing for a mass picket to show our support for "Nasreen and her three daughters (the other two from a previous marriage) in their wish to stay in Rochdale.

Discriminates

Nasreen's case is one of many under the 1971 Immigration Act where the Asian or black woman, on being deserted by her husband loses her right to stay in the country. The law discriminates against black women and their children whether they were born here от not. i Nasira Begum, Cynthia Gordon and Jaswinder Kaur are only three of the better known cases affected by this racist and sexist legislation.

Messages of Nasreen Akhtar donations to the campaign should be sent to Friends of Nasreen Akhtar, c/o 59, Ashworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire. unal has ruled that her failure to learn English is hindering her chances of finding a job.

With 'encouragement' like that, who needs fascists?