I am an asylum seeker and was in the hotel targeted by far-right rioters. I am grateful for the support I have received from the authorities and the community so far.

As I watched the chaos unfold from my hotel room, I felt the protestors becoming angrier and angrier.



Then, when they set a police car on fire, my terror peaked.



They wanted to break the fence and come into the hotel, but thankfully police subdued them.



This was the night of Friday 10 February and we’d find out later that it was a riot fuelled by the far-right outside our hotel.



Asylum seekers like me staying in The Suites Hotel in Knowsley are exhausted from violence – we’ve run away from it in our home countries and now we’re experiencing it all over again.



I was an engineering student in Iran.



I loved studying aerospace – I worked for years on building a drone from scratch – but the situation in the country was like something out of 1984.



One day last year when I was just walking down the street, my life changed forever. It was the time when the protests began in Iran about Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in police custody after being arrested over the way she wore her headscarf.



I wasn’t even at one of the protests – I’d just heard it was happening and was walking nearby with a friend when the security forces arrived. There were 30 armed police on motorcycles, all pointing at us with their weapons.



They shot us with some sort of rubber bullet that made my skin turn blue with bruising and splattered me with paint at the same time. My friend took my hand and pulled me away, but they chased us.



When they caught me, they pulled me by my hair to the ground and 15 of them kicked me with their boots. You feel so weak when people are attacking you like that – you can’t do anything. I still have scars from that assault.









As I watched the chaos unfold from my hotel room, I could feel the protestors becoming angrier and angrier.

Then, when they set a police car on fire, my terror peaked.

They wanted to break the fence and come into the hotel, but thankfully police subdued them.

This was the night of Friday 10 February and we’d find out later that it was a riot fuelled by the far-right outside our hotel.

Asylum seekers like me staying in The Suites Hotel in Knowsley are exhausted from violence – we’ve run away from it in our home countries and now we’re experiencing it all over again.



I was an engineering student in Iran.

I loved studying aerospace – I worked for years on building a drone from scratch – but the situation in the country was like something out of 1984.

One day last year when I was just walking down the street, my life changed forever. It was the time when the protests began in Iran about Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in police custody after being arrested over the way she wore her headscarf.



I wasn’t even at one of the protests – I’d just heard it was happening and was walking nearby with a friend when the security forces arrived. There were 30 armed police on motorcycles, all pointing at us with their weapons.

They shot us with some sort of rubber bullet that made my skin turn blue with bruising and splattered me with paint at the same time. My friend took my hand and pulled me away, but they chased us.

When they caught me, they pulled me by my hair to the ground and 15 of them kicked me with their boots. You feel so weak when people are attacking you like that – you can’t do anything. I still have scars from that assault.

Then they picked me up, but my



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