Amdani Juma's deportation flight to Burundi via Nairobi on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 was cancelled at zero hour yesterday on Tuesday June 10th as an application for an judicial review, accepted by the High Court, was finally acknowledged. He is now awaiting a bail hearing on Monday.
THANKS TO ALL WHO HAVE AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AMDANI'S CAMPAIGN TO STAY IN UK.
No thanks to the Home Office who could have ended his misery by discretion without forcing him to go through another court hearing (and still could), or to the immigration enforcement unit who kept him waiting until the last minute.
Supporters visited him all afternoon at Colnbrook immigration removal centre (run by private contractor Serco with transportation support from Group 4), and stayed well after the flight was seen to take off from Heathrow airport.
Amdani's legal battle to stay has only just begun, and he is not yet out on bail. He was also taken away by the Home Office during visiting on Wednesday evening and was moved immediately to Campsfield detention centre in Oxfordshire.
His bail hearing is set for Monday 16th June in London so he will most likely remain in Campsfield until then.
But we can all be relieved and happy he was not on that flight (whilst knowing it would probably be carrying other forced deportees), and we look forward to having him back in Nottingham soon. The campaigning will continue in earnest.
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Find out more about No Borders on FRIDAY 13TH JUNE.
There will be a public meeting, food and live music at the SUMAC Centre in Forest Fields. Small World Kitchen and No Borders present an evening of discussion, traditional African vegan food and live music from Ngoma, starting with the meeting at 6.30pm (food at 8pm, music from 9). More details and directions can be found in the Sumac/Veggies events diary:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1319
No thanks to the Home Office who could have ended his misery by discretion without forcing him to go through another court hearing (and still could), or to the immigration enforcement unit who kept him waiting until the last minute.
Supporters visited him all afternoon at Colnbrook immigration removal centre (run by private contractor Serco with transportation support from Group 4), and stayed well after the flight was seen to take off from Heathrow airport.
Amdani's legal battle to stay has only just begun, and he is not yet out on bail. He was also taken away by the Home Office during visiting on Wednesday evening and was moved immediately to Campsfield detention centre in Oxfordshire.
His bail hearing is set for Monday 16th June in London so he will most likely remain in Campsfield until then.
But we can all be relieved and happy he was not on that flight (whilst knowing it would probably be carrying other forced deportees), and we look forward to having him back in Nottingham soon. The campaigning will continue in earnest.
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Find out more about No Borders on FRIDAY 13TH JUNE.
There will be a public meeting, food and live music at the SUMAC Centre in Forest Fields. Small World Kitchen and No Borders present an evening of discussion, traditional African vegan food and live music from Ngoma, starting with the meeting at 6.30pm (food at 8pm, music from 9). More details and directions can be found in the Sumac/Veggies events diary:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1319
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Serco - Bringing service to life
12.06.2008 20:43
They say: "Serco has grown to become one of the world’s leading service companies by working in partnership with its customers and staff to manage change smoothly and positively – and pursue continuous improvement relentlessly.
We think innovatively to help governments improve services across many areas of public life, from justice to healthcare, education to defence.
Our work ranges from the management of facilities, projects and IT systems, through to the creation of entirely new businesses. This includes the financing, design and build of new facilities, including hospitals and transport systems, as well as their day-to-day operation. We run world-class scientific establishments, provide critical information to manage traffic, maintain buildings, operate railways and detain offenders."
In the early 1960s the company won a piece of work that was to shape its future direction – a maintenance contract for the UK Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Fylingdales. This expanded into a contract to operate the technical facilities at the base and provide comprehensive support to the RAF – which they continue to do today.
They have a finger in nearly every tainted pie you can imagine. This includes: private health care; prison health "care"; UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston; databases for schools to enable behaviour to be managed more effectively; support contracts at RAF Northolt; police support including technology-enabled services ranging from intelligence systems, command and control; secure and covert mobile communications; running four private UK prisons.
Serco have developed a confidential intelligence application for the UK Home Office’s Immigration and Nationality Directorate, named Mycroft. They also tag asylum seekers. They run Colnbrook and Yarlswood IRCs and claim: "Our staff care for the wide range of nationalities in our centre with respect and understanding. We provide education and recreation facilities and ensure detainees can maintain contact with friends, families and legal advisers." What they should say is that they lock up innocent people 23 hours a day, force them to use toilets in their cells without proper doors, deprive them of items needed to fulfil their religious beliefs, and make up such byzantine rules that it's almost impossible for visitors to jump through the necessary hoops.
All this is just part of the story. It must make their shareholders a pretty profit. Their 2007 preliminary results were £2811m (up 10.3%) in revenue. There's an awful lot of money to be made out of human misery, and Serco know exactly how to do it.
Why are we letting them?
Serco can be contacted:
Serco Group plc
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T: +44 (0)1256 745900
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Serco Group plc is a company registered in England and Wales No. 2048608.
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It's ten times as bad as it looks at first.
Sercorina
Amdani has been bailed Monday 16th June
16.06.2008 15:54
But he is still at risk. He has to win the Judicial Review now. This is only the end of the beginning.
But, for now, let's be happy for Nottingham and for Amdani.
Happy Bunny