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‘DON’T SEND HIM BACK’

Campaign to stop sixth-form pupil’s deportation to Iran

TEACHERS and pupils have mounted a campaign this week to stop the deportation of one of their sixth-form students and friend.
Behnam, 19, who studies at Quintin Kynaston in St John’s Wood, is facing five years in prison and 70 lashes if he is made to return to his home country of Iran by the Home Office. Behnam and his family moved to London legitimately in 2002 when his father started working at a British shipping company. But in August Behnam and his mother Masoumeh (who have asked for their surnames not to be printed) were sentenced in absentia by an Iranian Revolutionary Court to five and seven year jail sentences and lashes if they return.
They were found guilty of collaborating with the Mujahadin, an outlawed opposition organisation, after the Iranian authorities found anti-government leaflets were being printed in their Tehran flat while the family were living in England.
“My friends were staying in our Tehran flat while they finished their studies,” Behnam said.
“I knew they were Mujahadin but I did not know they were using the flat to make leaflets and when police raided them they found their photocopier.”
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£23K bill, despite winning battle

THE leader of the opposition is facing a mammoth £23,000 legal bill after City Hall refused to reimburse his legal costs following a Standards Board inquiry.
Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg was earlier this year cleared of bringing Westminster Council into disrepute by the Standards Board Adjudication Panel.
It ruled that information he leaked to the press regarding the council’s ‘go-slow’ in recovering the surcharge owed by Dame Shirley Porter for her part in the ‘Homes for Votes’ scandal had been done in the public interest. But at a meeting on Wednesday night the council decided not to reimburse the £23,000 of a £46,000 legal bill for which Cllr Dimoldenberg is liable.
He said: “It is a shattering blow, but really typical of the biased and nasty ways in which this council operates.
“My efforts helped the council recover over £12 million for taxpayers and I have been found totally innocent of the ridiculous charges. Yet the Conservatives have refused point-blank to reimburse me for the huge legal costs I had to incur in order to fight their politically-inspired witch-hunt.”

 



Angelino's finest are put to the test

WE came across Angelino Wines, sandwiched between two colourful and aggressively self-promoting Australian wine sellers, at Islington’s London Wine Event at the end of October.
Its owner is Farrell Anglin, whose imagination was caught by a lecture on the history of wine making at Southgate College.

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