A vigil will take place today to commemorate Firsat Yildiz, a 22-year Turkish Kurd, who was stabbed to death last week while returning home to his flat in Sighthill, Glasgow. The housing estate accommodates around 15,000 asylum seekers placed there as part of the Government’s dispersal policy.

The death of the young man is thought to be the result of an unprovoked racist attack.

Participants in the vigil include, among others, the Refugee Council, the National Assembly Against Racism, TGWU Textile branch, and several Kurdish groups.

Please join us:

4-6pm
Outside the Home Office
50 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1 (nearest tube St James’ Park)