UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Zimbabwe ‘Death of Democracy’ Gathering in Hyson Green, Nottingham

20-04-2009 17:33

On Saturday 18th April, the ex-pat Zimbabwe Community from around the UK, came together to discuss the ‘Death of Democracy’

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Keep Sulaiti Sarah Wahuyo and Gabriel Wahuyo in the UK

20-04-2009 05:07

Sulaiti and her 2 year old son Gabriel are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and are due to be forcibly removed from UK to Uganda on Wednesday 22nd April 2009 on Kenay Airways Flight KQ101 @ 20.00 to Kampala.

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Urgent Action: Save the Refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea in Milan

18-04-2009 17:31

EveryOne Group is asking the institutions to grant political asylum to the refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea in Bruzzano (Milan) according to the regulations laid down by international law.

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Stop deportations to Iraq protest - Cardiff

18-04-2009 03:30

Full report with more photos and links here:

http://noborderswales.org.uk/2009/04/17/cardiff-protest-against-deportations-to-iraq/

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Injustice Behind Bars

17-04-2009 20:49

The Indypendent

April 17, 2009

http://www.indypendent.org/2009/04/16/injustice-behind-bars/#hide

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Video of the Tamil protests:

17-04-2009 20:21

break the silence!

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Borders, Migration & Freedom of Movement Dayschool - Edinburgh

16-04-2009 17:54

An opportunity for people to get together to share info and ideas on the border regime and the growing movement against borders and for the freedom of movement for all!

10.30am til 6pm, plus evening social and music, @ the Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EY

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Anti-deportation protest at the Kurdistan Regional Government office in London

16-04-2009 15:32

About 20 people gathered outside the London office of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government to highlight its complicity in the mass deportations of Iraqi-Kurdish refugees. The protest, which was called by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and supported by London No Borders, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, coincided with an international demonstration outside the UN offices in Geneva. No Borders South Wales also held a solidarity demonstration at the UK Border Agency office in Cardiff.

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Greece: Immigrant beaten up to death by Coast Guarding Police

16-04-2009 11:49

men of the Coast Guarding police caused deadly injuries to a 29-year-old Kurdish man from Iraq

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Cherbal Family Must Stay In Blackburn

15-04-2009 07:07

Ismail Cherbal and Safia Aouf, nationals of Algeria, and their British-born children Sonia aged four and son Aya aged 15 months have lived in Blackburn, Lancashire, for almost five years. They are currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and are due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Thursday, April 16th at 09.45 hours on British Airways flight BA894 to Algeria.

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Protest against forcible deportations to Iraqi Kurdistan – London, 16th April

14-04-2009 10:13

Anti-deportation campaigners are staging a demonstration on Thursday outside the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government office in London to highlight its complicity in the forcible mass deportations of Iraqi-Kurdish refugees. The protest, called by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and supported by many groups including London No Borders, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! and the SOAS Detainee Support Group, will coincide with an international demonstration called by IFIR outside the UN offices in Geneva. No Borders South Wales is also holding a solidarity demonstration at the UK Border Agency office in Cardiff.

Time: Thursday, 16th April, 1pm
Place: Winchester House, 259-269 Old Marylebone Road, NW1 5RA
Nearest tube: Edgware Road

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80 activists blocked the gate of a detention centre in Belgium on 11/04/09

13-04-2009 12:25

On the 11th of april 2009 eighty activists blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Steenokkerzeel (Belgium). The action started at 5:30 AM, when activists from across the country found their way trough the fields surrounding the detention centre, and blocked the gates. The action ended around 11:30 AM when the last activists were removed by the police.

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Close London's (Mis)Communications House

12-04-2009 23:08

Yet another asylum seeker was detained last week while signing on at Communications House, one of London's two immigration reporting centres that is located on Old Street. He was taken into the adjoining short-term detention facility and, a few hours later, a G4S van carried him to one of the UK's 11 detention centres. Below are some pictures taken with a mobile phone as well as some information on Communications 'House'.

"Though [short-term detention facilities] hold detainees only for short periods, they do so at a time of maximum anxiety and uncertainty, outside the public gaze." - HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers, August 2005

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Fascism and racism in Denmark and Sweden

12-04-2009 15:54

Well, before 2 days I was discriminated again, so I decided to spread information about institutional racism and fascism in Scandinavia. Discrimination became so wide in society that you should always ask Danish for his/her opinion about East Europeans in Denmark before you gives them place for sleeping or anything in your country.

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Stop deportations to Iraq - demonstration outside UKBA, Cardiff, 17th April

11-04-2009 21:10

No Borders South Wales will be holding a demonstration in solidarity with the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) outside the UK Border Agency, 31-33 Newport Road, Cardiff on Friday 17th April at 1pm.

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Helen Bih Must Stay

09-04-2009 09:11

Helen Ngwaneba Bih a national of Cameroon and resident of Glasgow, is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from UK to Cameroon on Sunday 12th April 2009 @ 19:15 on Virgin Atlantic flight VS671 to Nairobi and then Kenya Airways Flight KQ524 at 9.45pm on Monday 13th April to Yaounde, Cameroon.

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BNP deputy leader addresses international fascist rally

06-04-2009 01:23

The deputy leader of the British National Party has spoken at an international fascist rally alongside a man convicted of a terrorism offence and a convicted Holocaust denier.

Simon Darby claims he addressed a 400-strong audience in Milan today (5 April)

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Strasbourg. No Borders action.

05-04-2009 18:57

After clearing the obstacles at the Vaubaun bridge activists headed for the border with Germany. 5,000 protesters were trapped on the other side by the authorities despite this being a Europe without borders.

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New detention centre, Oxfordshire

04-04-2009 19:26

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Demonstrate at Communications House Tuesday 7 April

02-04-2009 22:39

EC1 and the City of London are the location of demonstrations all this week - outside the banks and all over the 'square mile' of Britain's finance capital on Wednesday and Thursday; outside Willes building in support of the sacked cleaners on Friday... and the struggle will continue on Tuesday outside Communications House