Deportation torture machine
mouse | 04.05.2005 08:27
Illegal attempt to deport Anicet Mayela to Congo-Brazzaville. He is a key witness in an investigation by the CID of Global Solutions Ltd, for criminal assault in an earlier deportation attempt.
Members of Oxford's Campaign to Close Campsfield, and allies, will this morning attempt to prevent a serious breach of the law (as well as of human rights) by the Home Office and its agents, the ill-starred and notorious Global Solutions Limited (who operate Campsfield).
The unusual thing about this deportation is not its flagrant disregard for the safety, wishes or rights of the victim. This is now routine. But this time the British Government is also flouting British law and even the C.I.D., by deporting the key witness in a case that could embarass, yet again, its favoured prisons-for-profit company, GSL.
Anicet Mayela may be forced onto an Air France flight this morning, probably with violence, on Home Office instructions. Anicet is just 22 years old, and from Congo Brazzaville, where most of his family were killed in 1997. He himself fled to Britain just over a year ago. If he is returned he will probably "disappear", as has happened to many other deportees.
Anicet is being "escorted" by Global Solutions Limited (GSL). This company is notorious. In fact, its employees are being INVESTIGATED BY THE CID FOR CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON ANICET during an earlier deportation attempt, in March, in which he was savagely and repeatedly kicked, and bones in his hand were smashed.
As the key witness in this case, Anicet's deportation is in fact illegal. But the Home Office considers the law of secondary importance to its "tough stance" on asylum seekers. Today, we call on you to demand justice!
Anicet's case is one of many against GSL. You may have seen exposés of their activities on BBC TV earlier this year, and by the Daily Mirror a year ago, revealing endemic racist violence against the inmates of the immigrant detention centres they run at Oakington near Cambridge and Yarl's Wood near Bedford.
If you wish to learn more about this case and the surrounding issues please contact the Campaign to Close Campsfield:
http://www.closecampsfield.org.uk/
The unusual thing about this deportation is not its flagrant disregard for the safety, wishes or rights of the victim. This is now routine. But this time the British Government is also flouting British law and even the C.I.D., by deporting the key witness in a case that could embarass, yet again, its favoured prisons-for-profit company, GSL.
Anicet Mayela may be forced onto an Air France flight this morning, probably with violence, on Home Office instructions. Anicet is just 22 years old, and from Congo Brazzaville, where most of his family were killed in 1997. He himself fled to Britain just over a year ago. If he is returned he will probably "disappear", as has happened to many other deportees.
Anicet is being "escorted" by Global Solutions Limited (GSL). This company is notorious. In fact, its employees are being INVESTIGATED BY THE CID FOR CRIMINAL ASSAULT ON ANICET during an earlier deportation attempt, in March, in which he was savagely and repeatedly kicked, and bones in his hand were smashed.
As the key witness in this case, Anicet's deportation is in fact illegal. But the Home Office considers the law of secondary importance to its "tough stance" on asylum seekers. Today, we call on you to demand justice!
Anicet's case is one of many against GSL. You may have seen exposés of their activities on BBC TV earlier this year, and by the Daily Mirror a year ago, revealing endemic racist violence against the inmates of the immigrant detention centres they run at Oakington near Cambridge and Yarl's Wood near Bedford.
If you wish to learn more about this case and the surrounding issues please contact the Campaign to Close Campsfield:
http://www.closecampsfield.org.uk/
mouse