Police help calm tensions at World Refugee Day event at Hagley College. About a dozen protestors from the city’s Somali, Ethiopian, and Afghan communities disrupted the World Refugee Day event at Hagley College on Saturday afternoon. The dispute centres on the exclusion of some people from membership of the Canterbury Refugee Resettlement and Resource Centre (CRRRC). JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF/Stuff Mahmed Jama, right, was amongst the protesters who ambushed Saturday’s World Refugee Day event. John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Canterbury Refugee Resettlement and Resource Centre chairman Ahmed Tani, right, with Labour Wigram MP Megan Woods at World Refugee Day.

Source: Stuff July 19, 2020 23:48 UTC