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In the year 2012, 22,000 people applied for asylum in the UK.

Gloucester based organisation Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, known as GARAS, has been holding its 14th Annual General Meeting. It is estimated there are just under 100 asylum seekers in the area.

The organisation was set up in 1999 to provide help, support and guidance for people who have fled their country and are fearful they may be killed because for speaking or taking action against their country's government.

In this extract presenter Manny Masih meets some of the refugees and asylum seekers in the county...

First he speaks to Ali, a refugee who was originally a writer and a poet in Iran.
He says he was part of a writers' group that wrote about Human Rights issues and that some members of the group were killed.

In the second part of this extract he speaks to Marie, who is from Rawanda. Her father who was a Tutsi was killed by the Hutus during the the Rwandan Genocide that took place in 1994.

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