Following the cancellation order on his deportation and despite being unjustly incarcerated for over two weeks, Hicham Yezza has received news that he is to be transported to a fifth detention centre. He released this statement today from Colnbrook immigration removal centre:
“I have just been informed that I am to be move to a detention centre in Dover. This would be the fifth movement in 9 days and is therefore unacceptable. It is deeply and saddening for both myself and my visitors it is also a great source of distress at this time and an affront to human dignity and my human right to be treated with respect and consideration. I am thus categorical refusing to go.
I am not a piece of luggage, but a human being and deserve to be treated as such.”
Despite the existence of a long term facility adjacent to Hicham’s current location he is once more being transported. Hicham dignity should not come second to the interests of private sector detention centres whose main aim is to delay release procedures and maximise profits. Given that the outcome of his bail application is imminent; this renders further transportation unnecessary, such disruption would not only violate Hicham’s right to private life through contact with visitors and the outside world but places a needless burden on the tax payer.
I am not a piece of luggage, but a human being and deserve to be treated as such.”
Despite the existence of a long term facility adjacent to Hicham’s current location he is once more being transported. Hicham dignity should not come second to the interests of private sector detention centres whose main aim is to delay release procedures and maximise profits. Given that the outcome of his bail application is imminent; this renders further transportation unnecessary, such disruption would not only violate Hicham’s right to private life through contact with visitors and the outside world but places a needless burden on the tax payer.
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Below the standards of a civilised society
31.05.2008 20:00
Well done Hich for raising your voice and refusing to move.
The UK Government want to double the capacity of these privately run immigration prisons. 20 000 people are forced into these so called 'Removal centres' every year, which has to be one of the most shameful aspects of UK society. The recent Independent Asylum Commission described the asylum system as 'seriously below the standards to be expected of a humane and civilised society', not surprising when there are masses of recorded cases of abuse by immigration escorts and staff in these centres. People can be held arbitrarily and indefinitely for years in these places. Time to close them down.
Keep fighting!
PB