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Siva must stay in Bristol- demo today 13th

No one is illegal | 13.12.2010 12:22

26 year old father and his two children are to be separated as he is deported back to Sri Lanka having lived in the UK since childhood.
Sivarajah, aged 26 has been living in the UK since he was 14 years old.

Last Tuesday, he was sent to Campsfield detention centre where he began a hunger strike. Monday marks the fifth day of this.

Siva is a much loved member of his community in Bristol, often cooking for 130 people at the Bristol Refugee Rights welcome centre.

He is a keen cricketer, having been a member of two cricket teams here.

Bristol Refugee Rights will be staging a demonstration at College Green 1pm Monday 13 December – demonstrators will be wearing cricket whites and appealing to the British publics sense of ‘Fair Play’ by declaring ‘It’s simply not Cricket’

Last Tuesday, he was sent to Campsfield detention centre where he began a hunger strike. Monday marks the fifth day of this.

Siva is a much loved member of his community in Bristol, often cooking for 130 people at the Bristol Refugee Rights welcome centre.

He is a keen cricketer, having been a member of two cricket teams here.

Bristol Refugee Rights will be staging a demonstration at College Green 1pm Monday 13 December – demonstrators will be wearing cricket whites and appealing to the British publics sense of ‘Fair Play’ by declaring ‘It’s simply not Cricket’

His deportation would be a direct contravention of the Human Rights Act, Article 8 which states that everyone has a right to family and private life. He has no family in Sri Lanka, his parents having been killed when he was 9 years old.
Contact :
Sampritti Clitheroe Welcome Centre Co-ordinator :07841 818573
Caroline Beattie Welcome Centre Manager: 07968092747
Sivarajah: 07504610079



No one is illegal
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/702486