UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Jean-Baptiste Bassime Must Stay In UK Campaign

18-05-2009 05:21

Jean-Baptiste Foukong Bassime a national of Cameroon and resident of Birmingham; was arrested and detained by UK Home Office when he reported for signing at Solihull Immigration office on 5/5/09. Currently he is detained in Campsfield IRC, and due to be forcibly removed to Cameroon on Thursday 21 May 2009 on Easyjet flight U2-2431 from Luton Airport @ 06:00hrs to Paris, and then from Paris to Cameroon on Air France Flight AF940.

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Justice For Pakistani Students Arrested under Terrorism Laws

18-05-2009 02:28

Planning meeting to setup the local chapter of the national campaign against the deportation of 12 Pakistani students arrested under terror laws. Failing to present any incriminating evidence against them the government has decided to deport them.

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Video of the Colnbrook Blockade

17-05-2009 13:14

on 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent the mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook via charter flight. Six activists locked themselves together, using glass and plastic arm tubes attached to heavy concrete barrels. The blockade lasted for over four hours, after which three coaches carrying the deportees left for an undisclosed airport. All six were arrested (two quite violently) for obstruction of the highway.

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Bath Bomb #22 Out Now

16-05-2009 01:41

This month's issue of Bath's radical newsletter, now out

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Click to hear what's on Dissident Island Radio Show - Tonight!! 9pm

15-05-2009 12:37

Check out the show, starting 9pm tonight...

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Students and staff mark one-year anniversary of botched anti-terror raid

15-05-2009 10:26

Staff and students at the University of Nottingham have condemned the government "policy of auto-deportation" in light of the recent botched terror arrests in the North West and vowed to continue fighting for former staff member Hicham Yezza's right to remain in the UK.

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Third attempt to remove Constant Moussavou

15-05-2009 06:27

Constant Moussavou, a national of Congo Brazzaville, and resident of Leicester a long time activist/member of Leicester Civil Rights Movement (LCRM). Is currently detained in Dungavel House IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 18th May 2009 on Air France Flight No AF1981 @ 06.40 from London Heathrow.

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Calais No Border Camp Call-Out

14-05-2009 22:26

The Calais No Border camp, 23-29 June 2009, is a joint venture between French and Belgian activists and migrant support groups and the UK No Borders Network.

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Dawn raid in Glasgow this morning

14-05-2009 12:50

Home Office terrorise family to prove a point!
Mum and son dawn-raided in Sighthill this morning

Support the protest tomorrow morning outside the Home Office in Glasgow at 10.00am

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OutCry

14-05-2009 11:56

We don't want your Immigration legislation
We don't want your child control
Foreign national children are UK's assets
Woolas, Smith, leave these kids alone

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Humanitarian aid at sea considered a crime

14-05-2009 10:52

Elias Bierdeland and Captain Stefan Schmidt face a four years sentence for helping refugees at sea.

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Members of racist organisations employed within the Home Office

14-05-2009 10:47

At the moment, nothing stops people from far right organisations from working in the Home Office and deal with refugees.

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Desmond Nwose aged 10 needs help for himself and his family

14-05-2009 06:38

My name is Desmond Nwose. I am 10 years old. My favourite subject is math's and I would love to be a successful solicitor so I can fight for people's right but I am not too sure now because I have no future and I was told by the people who broke down our door to arrest me and my family that we do not have the right to stay in the UK.

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The Colnbrook Blockade in pictures

14-05-2009 00:37

Early in the morning of 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent a scheduled mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook. Six activists locked themselves together in pairs, using glass and plastic arm tubes attached to heavy concrete barrels. The blockade lasted for over four hours, after which three coaches carrying the deportees left for an undisclosed airport. All six were arrested (two quite violently) for obstruction of the highway.

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Colnbrook blockade ends with 6 arrests

12-05-2009 18:18

A five-hour blockade of Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow airport, has ended with six protesters being arrested for 'obstructing the highway'. The six activists from the Stop Deportation Network had encased their arms in glass and plastic tubes and concrete blocks, blocking the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres, in an attempt to stop the forcible mass deportation of 45 Iraqi refugees on a specially chartered flight to Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Blockade of Colnbrook detention centre– SUPPORT NEEDED

12-05-2009 09:55

Colnbrook IRC blockaded in attempt to stop the forced deportation of detainee's to Iraq. Support needed now to reinforce blockade.

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Colnbrook IRC under Blockade

12-05-2009 09:11

Anti-deportation campaigners encase themselves in concrete and glass to stop mass deportation flight to Iraq

Campaigners from the Stop Deportation Network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees are blockading Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow airport, to stop 45 Iraqi refugees being forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan on a specially chartered flight. Six protesters have encased their arms in glass and plastic tubes and concrete blocks, blocking the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres. The coaches to carry deportees to the airport have not been able to leave.

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On route to Calais: No Borders tour in Manchester and Hebden Bridge

11-05-2009 16:38

Upcoming No Borders exhibition in Manchester (Longsight and Northern Quarter) + talks/films in Manchester and Hebden Bridge

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Cardiff No Border Camp Calais Public Meeting this Thursday

10-05-2009 17:00

Films and Talks about the Calais No Border Camp. All Welcome.

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Birmingham Meeting for No Borders Camp, Calais

10-05-2009 14:11

The Calais No Border camp, 23 -29 June, calls for freedom of movement for all, an end to borders and all migration controls.
Birmingham Anti_Racist Campaign (ARC), facilitating a Birmingham mobilisation to the Camp, invite you to an organising meeting on Tuesday 19th May 2009, at 7.30pm.