Kenya Airways (50% owned by KLM) profits from UK Immigration deportations
megan | 01.06.2005 09:29
Kenya Airways flight KQ101 at 20.00 from Heathrow terminal 4 on Tuesdays and Thursdays is regulalry used by Immigration to return refugees by force to the countries they fled from persecution.
On Thursday 2nd June, Esthery Murumbi, Bashir Nazir and Harris Nyatsanza are scheduled to be deported.
Esthery and Harris are from Zimbabwe. The security guards who act as escorts to people being deported don't fly all the way to Zimbabwe as it is considered too dangerous a destination for them! but it is not considered too dangerous for Zimbabweans who have fled persecution to be returned there.
Esthery's father was murdered on the 9th May 2005 by the regime, her house there was raided several times and in the end it was destroyed. Given more time she could provide evidence to prove this to Immigration.
Bashir Nazir fled from Zanzibar to Mombassa with his father following the 2000 election there. His father is a member of the CUF opposition party in Zanzibar and is wanted there for his political involvement. The Tanzanian government don't make any distinction between members of the party and leaders. The CUF want independence from Tanzania and an effective democracy. The CUF won the 1995 and 2000 elections in Zanzibar but the Tanzanian government would not allow them to take power. The next election is scheduled for October 2005. People who have the means continue to leave Zanzibar, many fleeing to Canada. Bashir has lost contact with his father since arriving in the UK and his mother died in 2000.
All three people are political refugees and ought to be provided with refuge in the UK.
Esthery and Harris are from Zimbabwe. The security guards who act as escorts to people being deported don't fly all the way to Zimbabwe as it is considered too dangerous a destination for them! but it is not considered too dangerous for Zimbabweans who have fled persecution to be returned there.
Esthery's father was murdered on the 9th May 2005 by the regime, her house there was raided several times and in the end it was destroyed. Given more time she could provide evidence to prove this to Immigration.
Bashir Nazir fled from Zanzibar to Mombassa with his father following the 2000 election there. His father is a member of the CUF opposition party in Zanzibar and is wanted there for his political involvement. The Tanzanian government don't make any distinction between members of the party and leaders. The CUF want independence from Tanzania and an effective democracy. The CUF won the 1995 and 2000 elections in Zanzibar but the Tanzanian government would not allow them to take power. The next election is scheduled for October 2005. People who have the means continue to leave Zanzibar, many fleeing to Canada. Bashir has lost contact with his father since arriving in the UK and his mother died in 2000.
All three people are political refugees and ought to be provided with refuge in the UK.
megan