{"id":70713,"date":"2021-12-03T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=70713"},"modified":"2022-03-06T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T11:11:03","slug":"candlelit-vigil-sympathy-for-refugees-and-protest-against-the-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/candlelit-vigil-sympathy-for-refugees-and-protest-against-the-uk-government","title":{"rendered":"Vigil campaign: sympathy for refugees and protest against the UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cardiff citizens held a virgil not only to mourn the 27 people died attempting to cross English Channel but also to condemn the UK government&#8217;s refugee policy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"478\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123.jpg 849w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123.jpg 849w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/123-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Caridiff citizens claimed it was the UK governement&#8217;s violent policing at the border that led to 27 refugees&#8217; death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiff citizens held a vigil for refugees who drowned in the English Channel last week, demanding that the UK Government stop penalizing refugees based on journeys they made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 50 people gathered outside the Home Office building to pay tribute to 27 people who died at the UK&#8217;s boarder as well as to protest against the UK government&#8217;s refugee policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to say no deportation for any refugee. We need to say it aloud and clearly that refugees are welcome here,\u201d said the female social worker Helen Osullivan, \u201c27 refugees are dead in our oceans. Let&#8217;s protest regularly before the UK government stop such tragedy from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/124\u4f4d-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Participants held &#8220;Refugees welcome here&#8221; signs and joined Helen Osullivan to speak out for refugees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Wednesday 27 people, including three children died when their boat capsized while trying to cross English Channel from France. It was the deadliest shipwreck in the English Channel since record keeping began in 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants took turn to made speeches at the vigil. Local citizens of different age and occupations as wells as immigrants voiced their opposition to British policy of treating refugees and immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who arrives in UK via \u201cirregular\u201d routes (aka on an unexpected boat, lorry, or flight) will be criminalized and punished, according to the UK government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bills.parliament.uk\/bills\/3023\">Nationality and Borders Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senedd tabled a statement-<a href=\"https:\/\/record.senedd.wales\/StatementOfOpinion\/238\">Opposing the Nationality and Boarders<\/a> last Thursday to call on the UK government to stop penalizing refugees based on journeys they make and work collaboratively to build a more humane asylum system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This campaign was an echo of the Senedd&#8217;s opposition to the UK government&#8217;s way treating refugees and asylum seekers, according to Helen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants lit candles and placed flowers and signs on the steps of the building in the vigil for the refugees who died in the English Channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/12344556-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Candles, flowers and signs to pay tribute to the dead refugees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hussein Said,  a local asylum lawyer, said the government\u2019s treatment towards refugees is dehumanizing people. &#8220;It&#8217;s just basic questions like why should a woman in the Iraq worrying about dying and her children dying in five years because of the dangers of society, when rich and powerful people here criminalize the asylum seeker trying to get in the way of legally claiming asylum,&#8221; said he.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t stand by and allow that happen!\u201d he shouted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426.jpg 852w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426.jpg 852w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/57940-426-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Hussein strongly denounced the British government for its inhumane refugees policy during the speech.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hussein emphasized the role of campaign in changing government\u2019s decision-making as public opinions does matter in UK society.\u201cThey rely on people\u2019s vote. Their pressure was the public opinion. At the end of the day, these people know that they&#8217;ve been voted in by people, and they don&#8217;t want to look too bad,\u201d said Hussein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie Morgan, a 57-year-old teacher came up and led the crowd in a shout of \u201cCROESO&#8221; which means &#8220;Welcome to Welsh&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie has 30-year teaching experience with unaccompanied refugee children. She found they were very gifted students and she had great affection and compassion for refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was heartbroken and vigilant to honor them and to show support to refugees and asylum seekers,\u201d said Maggie. \u201cMy refugee students are amazing young people, and they&#8217;re an asset to this country. I want to tell the world we need refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yayhi Al-Faifi, 62, a retired worker, shared his experience of seeking asylum in UK after being exiled from Saudi Arabia. However, he was overburdened with work by the capitalists here and earned only \u00a370 a week for his family of six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/2344353535555-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Yayhi Al-Faifi is one among those asylum seekers who lived a struggling life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tia Roach, 19,  a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/blmcardiff\">Black Lives Matter Cardiff<\/a>,  said that refugees\u2019 causing social instability is the propaganda lie of British government. \u201cOur enemies are not desperate refugees who are in need of shelter, and housing, food, etc. Enemies are the people up above who don&#8217;t feel like caring for the people in their own country,\u201d said Roach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800.jpg 851w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/7800-293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Roach has long been an activist for refugee rights and the underprivileged.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey refuse to give housing to unhoused people. They basically refuse to feed poor children in this country. All they care about is profit,\u201d said the girl. \u201cI think a great step in the right direction for them must be accepting refugees from borders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff citizens&#8217; vigil for refugees who died in the English Channel was also a strong protest against the UK Government&#8217;s refugee policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":70730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[767,438],"coauthors":[1065],"class_list":["post-70713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","tag-refugees","tag-senedd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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