Taped statement of Viraj Mendis
- Title
- Taped statement of Viraj Mendis
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 20 Jan 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:14
- Description
- Sri Lankan (failed asylum seeker) Viraj Mendis, who has been living illegally in the UK, claims that he will be killed if he sets foot in his homeland. Before he left Pentonville Prison for Gatwick Airport today, a tape of Mendis was smuggled into the hands of an independent radio journalist. Here, the voice of Mendis. Recording is slightly muffled.
- Contributors
- Viraj Mendis
- Keywords
- Deportation; Government; UK; Immigration; Clergy; Manchester; England; Refugees; Churches; Church and State; Sri Lanka; Asylum seekers; Home Office; Douglas Hurd; Central Asian cultures; Viraj Mendis; John Methuen
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LBC/IRN, "Taped statement of Viraj Mendis". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000700346013 (Accessed 06 Nov 2025)