Aziz Ahmed Home Office Ref: A117377
Fustis | 23.08.2002 04:55
Aziz Ahmed
Home Office Ref: A117377
Port Ref: CEU/01/35315
Please fax appeals to:
Beverley Hughes M.P.
Asylum and Immigration Minister
Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7273 2043
or write to her at
The Home Office,
50 Queen Anne's Gate,
London,
United Kingdom
SW1H 9AT
Ask her to use ministerial discretion to allow Aziz Ahmed to stay in the UK at least until his family is found. This is the last chance for Aziz, who has now been given a removal order for 31 August.
Please also contact your mp and ask them to appeal to Beverley Hughes. These mps have already contacted her about the case: John McDonnell, Dr Evan Harris, Patrick Hall, Alistair Burt, Alice Mahon, Helen Clark, Ann Clwyd, J eremy Corbyn and Michael Portillo.
Mr Aziz Ahmed, who arrived from Tanzania last year, has been in detention for over 12 months, while his wife and four-year-old daughter have been missing. His claim for asylum was turned down. This in itself is wrong. Tanzania may be regarded as a safe country, but he comes from Pemba, a small island under the dictatorship of Zanzibar, which is only nominally a part of the United Republic of Tanzania.
He was a member of the opposition in Pemba, and was arrested and imprisoned with his father for attending a rally (declared illegal by the government). His wife was also beaten. After release, they were continually harassed, and when their village was violently attacked they had to flee.
Aziz arrived here on his own passport, with his wife, Husna Ahmed, and four-year-old daughter, Asya Ahmed. They first took refuge in a London mosque, where he was advised to go to Croydon to claim asylum. He did so, for all three, on 13 June 2001, on the fifth floor of the Enforcement building at Lunar House. They were all fingerprinted and photographed, and he was interviewed while the other two waited in the hallway. An agent had given them false Somali papers and names, so Aziz unfortunately used this false ID - he was taken to South Norwood police station, and kept in jail overnight to get him to reveal their true nationalities. His wife and child were left behind at Croydon HQ, and he never saw them again.
When he managed to find his way back to Croydon and ask where his wife and child were, Immigration first tried to claim that none of them attended on 13 June, and there was no record of his interview on that date (but the police record shows that he was taken from there on 13 June), then they said that if he went there, he was not accompanied by his wife and daughter (but the police obtained the Immigration photographs that were taken of them both), then that if he did take them, he did not claim asylum for them, (but all three of them were fingerprinted), then that if she was there she must have wandered off. She is a muslim wife who speaks no English and has never been out of Africa and it is unlikely that she would have walked off of her own accord. Anyway, she and her little girl were supposed to be under the Immigration Service's supervision - after all, it was they who forced the head of the family off to jail.
The Home Office has done nothing try to find them, except to disclaim responsibility for them altogether, whilst keeping the husband and father, Aziz, locked up continuously, unable to look for them. He was in the last van out of Yarl's Wood after the fire, and is now in Harmondsworth Detention Centre. Eventually, his solicitor persuaded the police to launch a missing persons enquiry.
Now, the Home Office is so embarrassed by this glaring example of incompetence and negligence that they are determined to get rid of Aziz Ahmed without ever having offered any reasonable explanation for his family's disappearance, only various conflicting and untrue stories. They are completely unconcerned that a woman and 4 year old girl were lost while in their care and Aziz Ahmed might never even know what happened to them. They plan to continue with his deportation on 31 August.
Please fax a message to:
Beverley Hughes M.P.
Asylum and Immigration Minister
Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7273 2043
or write to her at :
The Home Office,
50 Queen Anne's Gate,
London,
United Kingdom
SW1H 9AT.
Please ask her to exercise ministerial discretion in the case of Aziz Ahmed, Home Office Ref No A117377, due to be deported on 31 August, Port ref. number CEU/01/35315. Please ask her to allow him to stay in the UK at least until his family is found.
Thank you
Campaign to Free Aziz Ahmed
Home Office Ref: A117377
Port Ref: CEU/01/35315
Please fax appeals to:
Beverley Hughes M.P.
Asylum and Immigration Minister
Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7273 2043
or write to her at
The Home Office,
50 Queen Anne's Gate,
London,
United Kingdom
SW1H 9AT
Ask her to use ministerial discretion to allow Aziz Ahmed to stay in the UK at least until his family is found. This is the last chance for Aziz, who has now been given a removal order for 31 August.
Please also contact your mp and ask them to appeal to Beverley Hughes. These mps have already contacted her about the case: John McDonnell, Dr Evan Harris, Patrick Hall, Alistair Burt, Alice Mahon, Helen Clark, Ann Clwyd, J eremy Corbyn and Michael Portillo.
Mr Aziz Ahmed, who arrived from Tanzania last year, has been in detention for over 12 months, while his wife and four-year-old daughter have been missing. His claim for asylum was turned down. This in itself is wrong. Tanzania may be regarded as a safe country, but he comes from Pemba, a small island under the dictatorship of Zanzibar, which is only nominally a part of the United Republic of Tanzania.
He was a member of the opposition in Pemba, and was arrested and imprisoned with his father for attending a rally (declared illegal by the government). His wife was also beaten. After release, they were continually harassed, and when their village was violently attacked they had to flee.
Aziz arrived here on his own passport, with his wife, Husna Ahmed, and four-year-old daughter, Asya Ahmed. They first took refuge in a London mosque, where he was advised to go to Croydon to claim asylum. He did so, for all three, on 13 June 2001, on the fifth floor of the Enforcement building at Lunar House. They were all fingerprinted and photographed, and he was interviewed while the other two waited in the hallway. An agent had given them false Somali papers and names, so Aziz unfortunately used this false ID - he was taken to South Norwood police station, and kept in jail overnight to get him to reveal their true nationalities. His wife and child were left behind at Croydon HQ, and he never saw them again.
When he managed to find his way back to Croydon and ask where his wife and child were, Immigration first tried to claim that none of them attended on 13 June, and there was no record of his interview on that date (but the police record shows that he was taken from there on 13 June), then they said that if he went there, he was not accompanied by his wife and daughter (but the police obtained the Immigration photographs that were taken of them both), then that if he did take them, he did not claim asylum for them, (but all three of them were fingerprinted), then that if she was there she must have wandered off. She is a muslim wife who speaks no English and has never been out of Africa and it is unlikely that she would have walked off of her own accord. Anyway, she and her little girl were supposed to be under the Immigration Service's supervision - after all, it was they who forced the head of the family off to jail.
The Home Office has done nothing try to find them, except to disclaim responsibility for them altogether, whilst keeping the husband and father, Aziz, locked up continuously, unable to look for them. He was in the last van out of Yarl's Wood after the fire, and is now in Harmondsworth Detention Centre. Eventually, his solicitor persuaded the police to launch a missing persons enquiry.
Now, the Home Office is so embarrassed by this glaring example of incompetence and negligence that they are determined to get rid of Aziz Ahmed without ever having offered any reasonable explanation for his family's disappearance, only various conflicting and untrue stories. They are completely unconcerned that a woman and 4 year old girl were lost while in their care and Aziz Ahmed might never even know what happened to them. They plan to continue with his deportation on 31 August.
Please fax a message to:
Beverley Hughes M.P.
Asylum and Immigration Minister
Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7273 2043
or write to her at :
The Home Office,
50 Queen Anne's Gate,
London,
United Kingdom
SW1H 9AT.
Please ask her to exercise ministerial discretion in the case of Aziz Ahmed, Home Office Ref No A117377, due to be deported on 31 August, Port ref. number CEU/01/35315. Please ask her to allow him to stay in the UK at least until his family is found.
Thank you
Campaign to Free Aziz Ahmed
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