A SYRIAN woman who came to Scotland as a refugee nine years ago has made a plea to the Home Office to allow her seriously ill father to join her and her sister here before it is too late.
Violet Hejazi fled her home in northern Syria in 2013 as the country was ravaged by the continuing civil war. She said her village Al-Fu’ah was badly hit by various terrorist groups and, just as she was becoming settled in Scotland, she lost contact with her family. Her father Ali, who was then in his 60s, had suffered the first of several strokes. “They [the terrorists] were surrounding the area and there were snipers and shots and explosions every day,” she said. “In 2018, my family was evacuated and moved to another part of Syria.
