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Two mass deportations to torture in Sri Lanka, 19th and 20th Sept

No Borders, No Torture! Stop Deportations | 16.09.2012 20:54 | Anti-racism | Migration

At least two other deportation flights are scheduled for September 19th and 20th from the United Kingdom in Sri Lanka.

Blockade by activists to try and stop a charter flight to Sri Lanka
Blockade by activists to try and stop a charter flight to Sri Lanka


Since June 2011, there have been five mass deportation flight to Sri Lanka, involving several Tamils. Despite increasing evidence of torture on return, as documented by Freedom from Torture (formerly the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture) and Human Rights Watch, who have called for an immediate halt to deportatioions of Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka.

Please contact the Home Office and ask to stop these mass deportations to torture

Theresa May, MP
Secretary of State for the Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1 4DF
Fax
020 7035 4745
(00 44 20 7035 4745 if you are faxing from outside UK)

Email
 mayt@parliament.uk
 pscorrespondence@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
 Privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
 CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Original article  http://www.ncadc.org.uk/

The UK Border Agency is planning at least two charter flight mass deportations to Sri Lanka on 19 and 20 September. A stand-by legal group has been set for detainees facing removal.
More shocking evidence of torture in Sri Lanka has been published (14 Sept) by Freedom from Torture, highlighting the risk faced by Tamils returning to the country from the UK. The latest research relates to 24 people who were tortured in Sri Lanka after returning voluntarily from the UK since the end of the civil war in May 2009. Human Rights Watch has also issued a statement condeming the removals, calling for the United Kingdom to immediately suspend deportations to Sri Lanka of ethnic Tamils. “In its haste to be tough on failed asylum seekers, the British government is turning a blind eye to compelling evidence that Tamils deported to Sri Lanka risk torture on arrival,” said David Mepham, London director. HRW re-issued a document it sent on August 1 to the UK immigration minister detailing 13 cases of alleged torture of failed Tamil asylum seekers on return to Sri Lanka. All of these cases are supported by medical documentation.

links:

 http://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news-blogs/6659

 http://www.hrw.org/node/110167

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/14/tamils-deported-despite-torture-evidence

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hundreds-of-refugees-sent-back-to-sri-lanka-to-face-torture-8135804.html

 http://tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=35568


 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/

Background information:

The Channel4 documentary, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields:
 http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od

 http://stopdeportations.wordpress.com/sri-lanka/

 https://stopdeportations.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/did-liam-fox-plan-deportations-to-hide-tamil-genocide/

 http://stopdeportations.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/liam-foxs-business-interests-in-sri-lanka-drove-his-parallel-immigration-policy/

 http://www.channel4.com/news/judges-grant-last-minute-reprieve-to-sri-lankan-deportees

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/judge-halts-deportation-of-tamils-in-fear-of-torture-7811564.html



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