London Anti-racism Newswire Archive

03-12-2006 19:31

TCAR prepares for solidarity action with Harmondsworth and Yarl's wood protests

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) is in complete solidarity with the detention centre protesters at Harmondsworth and Yarl's wood. We have called an action this saturday (9th Decemeber) 12 noon- Monument, Newcastle city centre to show our support and raise the profile of the brave action these asylum seekers have taken and their success in releasing 150 detainees across the UK. End detention! End deportation! Together we are stronger! Read more >>

02-12-2006 10:18

Babar Ahmad to appeal to Lords against extradition

On Thursday 30th November 2006, The High Court in London ruled that Babar could be extradited to the US. What remains now is for the High Court to cerify that there are points of law in their Judgement that are of public importance. Babar's legal team now have 14 days to convince the High Court that there are in fact at least two points of law, namely those concerning Military Detention and Rendition. Read more >>

02-12-2006 06:45 | 1 addition

Harmondworth Solidarity Demo at Kalyx

Inside and Outside the Camp: Resistance Continues
This is a statement by London No Borders on the Uprising at Harmondsworth IRC and the protests at UK Detention Centres and the solidarity action we did outside Kalyx on Friday Night
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30-11-2006 15:10 | 2 additions

Urgent: Yarl's Wood Quarantined

Asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood have claimed today that Yarl's Wood IRC is quarantined and that visitors are not being allowed in due to the dangerous health conditions there. Read more >>

30-11-2006 10:26

Solidarity with the Harmondsworth detainees! Demonstrate at Communications House

The brave actions of the detainees at Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre, have publicised the disgusting conditions and treatment they face far wider than could ever have been achieved simply by the publication of the Chief Inspector of Prisons’ report criticising the immigration prison.
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29-11-2006 00:54 | 13 additions

Riot in Harmondsworth

A riot started around 9 pm in B wing and seems to have spread to all wings. Some detainees have been beaten up. There are reports of fires being lit everywhere. Detainees have been locked up in their rooms in some parts of the centre. In others they are stll rioting.
I have news now (00.50) they are now taking the detanees out of the building. Read more >>

28-11-2006 23:55

Stop deportation and detention of Ethiopian asylum seekers

Kinijit's support organisation KSOUK in the UK has staged a demonstration today in front of the Minister for Immigration, Marsham Street. They are challenging the decision of the British government to detain and deport asylum seekers from Ethiopia.
Between 50 and 60 people took part, mostly Ethiopian refugees and their supporters.
Members fo the opposition face being imprisoned and tortured if deported back to Ethiopia.
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28-11-2006 11:10 | 1 addition

Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre - 'Not fit for Purpose'

Anne Owers HM Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) has published today a report on Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), the UK's largest immigration removal centre, stating that it was not performing satisfactorily against ANY of the Inspectorate's tests of a healthy custodial environment and that poor relationships between custody officers and detainees were "worse than had been seen at any other detention centre" and was "Undoubtedly the poorest report" issued by HMIP of any IRC to date.
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26-11-2006 06:41 | 1 addition

Israeli Company Blockaded This Morning for the Third Time

Early This morning (Sun), Palestine solidarity activists blockaded the Israeli
Company Carmel Agrexco’s UK headquarters.
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25-11-2006 20:26

Misjudging rape

Adjudicators (now known as immigration judges) flout international law and even their own guidelines when they consider the asylum claims of women and girls seeking safety and protection from rape. Read more >>

24-11-2006 16:59

Voices From Detention

Barbed Wire Britain, a network to end refugee and migrant detention, has produced a second volume of testimonies from immigration detainees, Voices From Detention II.

Amidst the political and media clamour about how many asylum seekers have been or need be deported, the voices of the system's victims are necessarily stifled. Would-be refugees are mere statistics, objects in a disgusting Dutch auction as to which political brand can wash whitest. And this why such a collection is an important tool in the struggle for rights and justice.

The volume is a collection of accounts by detainees in Tinsley House, Campsfield House, Rochester (HMP), Liverpool (HMP), Belmarsh (HMP), Lindholme, Harmondsworth, Yarlswood, Dungavel, Dover and Haslar. These are people for whom the unthinkable has happened. They have been imprisoned in the UK without charge, without conviction, without time limit. They have been imprisoned by the UK government, which boasts its democratic institutions.

22-11-2006 16:22

Asylum Statistics: Q3 2006

The Home Office has released its "asylum statistics" for the 3rd quarter of 2006 (July, August and September). Below is a summary of the main points. Read more >>

22-11-2006 09:26

Performance of Asylum Monologues at King's College on 30/11/06 @ 6.00pm

Asylum Monologues is an account of the UK's asylum system, told first hand by the people who have experienced it.

‘you know before the war in my country, I was not even thinking about coming here. I was happy. I was with my family, everything was OK. Why should I want to go? But things happen.'
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17-11-2006 14:14

OutRage!- demo against poss Iran Arab executions-Sat 18th

OutRage! is holding an emergency demo against the possible execution of 10 Arabs in Iran. Iran Embassy -London 1-3pm Sat 18 Nov..
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15-11-2006 22:45 | 1 addition

Muslim student's victory against leading University

Nasser Amin's long-running legal battle with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London over free speech ends in victory Read more >>

13-11-2006 10:32

Weekly Vigil to Save the Jarawa - Reminder

Survival International are holding a weekly vigil at India House in solidarity with the Jarawa tribe Read more >>

13-11-2006 09:16

READ ALL ABOUT IT – UK-Portuguese newspaper launched in Thetford, Norfolk

Thetford based charity launches the first Portuguese newspaper to be fully edited and produced in the UK, hoping to reach the 500,000+ Portuguese nationals in the UK. Distributing in 600 places, mainly focussing on East Anglia and London. From an idea by META, a Keystone Equalities project. Read more >>

12-11-2006 00:20

Last ditch attempt to stop deportation of young lesbian

A last ditch attempt to stop Faridah Kenyini being deported is being organised by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR). We are asking people to take phone/fax action and if you live in the Heathrow area, to leaflet at the airport on Monday afternoon. Read more >>

10-11-2006 15:24

MI5 Dame: Brit Intelligence Busy Creating Terror Events

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said "MI5 and the police were tackling 200 groups or networks totalling more than 1,600 identified individuals in the UK who were ‘actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts,’ ”

Never mind that such terrorist acts rarely come to fruition, usually instead sputtering out into absurd allegations of liquid bombs and other fantastical plots nipped in the bud, or so we are expected to believe, that is after we suspend credibility, again for the umpteenth time. Read more >>

10-11-2006 15:20

Report on sectarian attack by PSC members

such situations must be brought to light.. Read more >>