Constant is a long-standing member of Leicester Civil Rights Movement and until his detention, he has attended our meetings regularly and made a very positive contribution. He has worked with all nationalities and attended conferences on our behalf and contributed to our newsletter (Insaf). Constant is honest and has helped other LCRM members. He was also a church warden in Leicester and thought of highly by the church.

There is no free speech in Congo Brazzaville as confirmed by Freedom House in 2008.  Constant was an active member of the Union Pour la Democratic Sociale (UPADS) where he campaigned for freedom of speech and democracy until he had to flee the country. His brother, also active in the organisation, disappeared and has never been seen since and we now know that his two younger sisters, Pelagie and Felicite, died in 2007 after being arrested by the republic's authorities.

At the very least, Constant will be imprisoned if he returns and given his brother and sisters' fate, we fear he will also be killed. Prison conditions in Congo Brazzaville are appalling and amount to inhumane torture. Constant has no family members or friends in Congo Brazzaville who can support him.

Background: Sanctuary for Constant Moussavou
 http://tinyurl.com/Sanctuary-for-ConstantMoussav


What can you do? Please see the following 2 Action Points:

What you can do to help:
1) Fax/Phone/Email, Girma Wake Chief Executive Officer Ethiopean Airways and urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Constant Moussavou - you can use the model fax 'ConstantMoussavouET' attached. You can copy, amend or write your own version - if you do please quote 'Constant Moussavou due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Wednesday 9th September on Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET701 at 21:35 to Addis Ababa then ET831 To Brazzaville Congo.

Fax:  020 8747 9339 - from outside the UK + 44 20 8747 9339

Phone: 020 8987 7000 (9:00am to 5:30pm/Monday to Friday, out of hours flight days only 020 8745 4235)

Email:  woldea@ethiopianairlines.com


2)      Please send urgent faxes/Emails immediately to Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for the Home Office. Model letter ConstantMoussavouAJ.doc attached which you can copy/amend/write your own version; if you do so, please remember to include the HO Ref M1200382.

Email:  UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
 CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
 Privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Fax: 020 8760 3132 / + 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK

Please also copy your letter to Sir Peter Soulsby, MP Leicester South at  peter@petersoulsby.org or  tel. 0116 255 2895

3)  Please notify LCRM of any messages sent:

 chrisgoodwin29@yahoo.com

Thank you for reading this email and please act now.

Yours sincerely,

Priya Thamotheram, Chair, Leicester Civil Rights Movement.



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