Ouro Yaya Bivayi is from Togo and scheduled for
deportation today 31st May 2005 at 12.55 on flights
8U943 or 8U750.

Ouro arrived in the UK at Heathrow in November 2004
and asked for asylum at the airport. He was sent
straight to Oakington and then on to Peterborough. His
appeal was refused.

In Togo, Ouro was a member of the opposition PDF party
that won the elections in 2003. Faure Gnassingbe, son
of president Gnassingbe Eyadema who ruled Togo for 38
years, refused to accept the loss and used the
military to crush the opposition, chasing them away
from the presidential palace. There was lots of
repression and many people fled to Ghana or Benin.

President Gnassingbe Eyadema resumed power until his
death in February 2005. There was an election Iast
April and the son of the late president won but the
election is widely believed to have been rigged.

Given some extra time Ouro will be able to get
documentation to show that his life would be in grave
danger if he returns to Togo.

It is possible to see from the latest UNHCR news about
Togo, dated 4 May 2005, that it is a very dangerous
time to return there as people are still streaming
over the borders into Ghana and Benin. Over 20,000
people have left so far:

 http://allafrica.com/stories/200505040918.html

 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28712350.htm

 http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:42982714:d0f6a88906c4b1f?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8632583

 http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/world/w226042005.html