Glasgow asylum seeker criminalised for self defence - urgent support neede
Annie | 20.08.2007 23:48 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles
The trial of the African woman accused of assaulting police when they dawn-raided her flat last year will continue tomorrow.
Today (Monday) the woman, who was dawn raided when she was five months pregnant, was told to come back to the court tomorrow for the start of her trial for assault. During the dawn raid she was thrown to the floor, stripped naked, handcuffed and her three-year old son was taken away for one week.
This would not happen to a criminal in Scotland but because this woman was an asylum seeker the Home Office Enforcement Unit thought they get away with treating her so badly.
Her lawyer says she is being made a scapegoat and that she could be sent to prison for three to five years. The court case will take at least three days. This trial will be the first time that the Home Office Immigration Enforcement Unit will have to justify their brutual use of dawn raids on families with children in an open court.
This woman needs your support!
Self-defence is no offence!
PLEASE COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS WOMAN
She needs to have people at the court every day to show that she has many supporters. Her trial will start at 10.am. If you cannot come please send messages of support.
We will have a solidarity demonstration outside the Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday 21st August at 1.00pm
Please bring as many people as possible
GLASGOW SHERIFF COURT
1 Carlton Place
Glasgow
G5 9DA
MAP:
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/locations/index.asp?crt=glw&val=map
BUS
The following services pass through Gorbals Cross (adjacent to the Sheriff Court): NorthlSouth Clyde 2000; Magicbus (KCB) route 175; and Strathclyde Buses routes 5, 5A, 12, 31, 66, 66A, 75. Caledonia Buses, route 66
UNITY!
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The Unity Centre
30 Ibrox Street
Glasgow G51 1AQ
0141 427 7992
theunitycentre@btconnect.com
www.unitycentreglasgow.org
(posted by TCAR in Newcastle upon hearing the news)
This would not happen to a criminal in Scotland but because this woman was an asylum seeker the Home Office Enforcement Unit thought they get away with treating her so badly.
Her lawyer says she is being made a scapegoat and that she could be sent to prison for three to five years. The court case will take at least three days. This trial will be the first time that the Home Office Immigration Enforcement Unit will have to justify their brutual use of dawn raids on families with children in an open court.
This woman needs your support!
Self-defence is no offence!
PLEASE COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS WOMAN
She needs to have people at the court every day to show that she has many supporters. Her trial will start at 10.am. If you cannot come please send messages of support.
We will have a solidarity demonstration outside the Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday 21st August at 1.00pm
Please bring as many people as possible
GLASGOW SHERIFF COURT
1 Carlton Place
Glasgow
G5 9DA
MAP:
http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/locations/index.asp?crt=glw&val=map BUS
The following services pass through Gorbals Cross (adjacent to the Sheriff Court): NorthlSouth Clyde 2000; Magicbus (KCB) route 175; and Strathclyde Buses routes 5, 5A, 12, 31, 66, 66A, 75. Caledonia Buses, route 66
UNITY!
-
The Unity Centre
30 Ibrox Street
Glasgow G51 1AQ
0141 427 7992
theunitycentre@btconnect.com www.unitycentreglasgow.org
(posted by TCAR in Newcastle upon hearing the news)
Annie
e-mail:
theunitycentre@btconnect.com
Homepage:
http://www.unitycentreglasgow.org
Additions
case is adjourned
25.08.2007 11:49
Thanks all for your support. The case has been adjourned for legal-type reasons, watch for more updates.
a volunteer
Homepage:
http://www.unitycentreglasgow.ogr
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solidarity from TCAR
21.08.2007 00:45
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees sends our solidarity and support for you. We stand with you in your struggle against the cruel and racist treatment of the Home Office Enforcement Unit.
We too in Newcastle have experienced the inhumane system of dawn raids where families, including children, are dragged from their beds and transported to prisons. In one case recently a four year old girl had to travel from Newcastle to London for 12 hours without a toilet break. As a result she got a urine infection and had to go to hospital. The Government says that ‘Every Child Matters’. But they are lying. Asylum seeker children can be deported at any time to an unsafe country, asylum seeker children can be imprisoned in a detention centre. Asylum seeker children obviously don’t matter to the Government.
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees demands an end to the racist system of dawn raids and immigration detention.
Seeking asylum is not a crime – End detention!
Deportation is the crime – Lock up Labour!
You have absolutely every right to resist deportation. How dare they strip away your dignity! How dare they take away your child! They are trying so hard to make you weak. And why? Because you are strong. Because we are strong and because together we are stronger! And we will keep on resisting the Government’s racist laws.
In solidarity,
Annie (one of the secretaries of TCAR on behalf of every member of TCAR)
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees
e-mail:
tynesidecarn@yahoo.co.uk