UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Sanctuary for Cameroonian's, Jean Mathurin Tadjiokeng Yves Yitgna Njitchoua, Ans

26-04-2010 11:32

Jean (Fifth attempt), Yves (Sixth attempt), and Anselme (seventh attempt), long time residents in the UK and currently detained in Colnbrook IRC, are once again facing deportation by charter flight to Cameroon on Wednesday 28th April 2010 on flight PVT 003 @06:30 to Douala.

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Newcastle

22-04-2010 19:43

Please support the St. George’s Day event at Newcastle Monument

Friday 23rd April-11am-6pm

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Sanctuary for Octavie Bei

22-04-2010 12:39

Octavie Bei a national of Cameroon and resident of London. Is due to be forcibly removed from UK to Cameroon on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101 tomorrow Friday 23rd April 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and onward to Cameroon.

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New Removal Directions For Nadia and Bashir, help stop their deportation

21-04-2010 22:51

This is a call out for people to contact airlines due to deport Nadia and Bashir this Friday 23rd April asking them to refuse to fly this couple. Since last weeks unsuccessful attempt to remove the couple a new date for removal has been set. Details below.

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Answers demanded about death of detainee at Oakington

21-04-2010 16:45

Death of Kenyan man in Oakington last week offically recorded as unsuspicious. But Detainees in Oakington are saying otherwise. 60 imprisoned following protests. Cambridge Migrant Solidarity following up the injustices in Oakington...

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Remember the dead - Justice for the Living

21-04-2010 08:06

Deaths from Self-Harm in immigration detention, murder, undetermined

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Bita Ghaedi Deportation Fails after massive campaign launched.

20-04-2010 21:58

This afternoon, her partner, Mohsen and his solicitor fought furiously to prevent the flight with appeals and an injunction. A large number of supporters, friends and activists remained on standby to travel to London Heathrow Airport ready to act. Peace campaigners deployed themselves in London and Washington even showing up in television news reports being broadcast from outside the British Parliament building.

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May 15th 2010: Mass Action for Freedom of Movement

20-04-2010 17:39

There's now just under a month to go before the Paris Day of Action for Freedom of Movement!
...Have a read of this mini-update & book your travel now...

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FRIDAY.5PM.LONDON:Demo against UBS/for migrant cleaners

19-04-2010 23:45

Demo against sacking of cleaner and organiser Alberto Durango and to show UBS the fight has only begun. The bigger the turnout the greater the confidence cleaners will have fighting some of the most powerful banks in the world for a living wage, contracts and trade union rights.

[called by Cleaners Defence Comittee]

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Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation, Home Office, London - pictures

19-04-2010 18:10

The day before her deportation takes place, supporters of Bita Ghaedi gather in London to object to her forced removal to Iran. Bita is an Iranian woman who has been living in the UK and campaigning against chronic human rights abuses committed in Iran during recent Pro-Democracy protests.

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Frontex, Acpo and the policing of Fortress Europe

18-04-2010 21:29

On 23rd March 2010, No Borders activists disrupted a high-profile conference about 'policing the borders' that brought together Frontex, the UK Border Agency and senior police officers from various UK police forces [press release | video]. In their shock and dismay, some of the highly esteemed delegates left behind their welcome packs as they rushed out of the conference hall one after the other.

Here we reproduce the programme, the list of delegates and their bios, and two of the main presentations that were included in the welcome packs, one by Frontex and the other by ACPO.

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May Day Discussion

18-04-2010 07:31

The first in a programme of monthly discussions and debates that will be held on the last Sunday of every month at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham Freeschool invites you to an evening of discussion and reflection on the history and politics of Mayday.

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Bita Ghaedi to be deported flight no BD931, Tuesday 20th...

17-04-2010 12:37

She has no where to go once she arrives in Iran and will be on the run almost immediately. She has lost weight as a result of repeated hunger strikes she has been undertaking in her desperate attempt to stay in the UK.

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Solidarity Demo Oakington - Press Release

17-04-2010 12:24

Solidarity demo outside Oakington detention centre this Sunday April 18, 12pm.

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Oakington Death Solidarity Demo - Sunday

16-04-2010 21:48

Solidarity Demonstration at Oakington Removal Centre this Sunday between 12 noon and 2pm.

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Emergency, Bita Ghaedi arrested this morning.

16-04-2010 10:34

This morning (16th April 2010) at 7am, nine police and UK Border agency officers broke into Bita Ghaedi's home and forcibly arrested her. She has been removed to the infamous Yarls Wood detention centre and has been scheduled to be removed to Iran on 20th April 2010. If this removal is successful, the British Government will have condemned this woman to certain death.

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Call for a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine

15-04-2010 01:16

Stop Deportation, along with other groups in Europe, are proposing a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, with a focus on joint European mass deportation flights and Frontex. The proposed date is the first week of June 2010, 1st-6th.

The idea is that groups and campaigns throughout Europe organise their own direct actions, demos and marches against forcible deportations from European countries, which are increasingly carried out through joint coordinated 'operations' involving private contractors and shadowy agencies like Frontex and the IOM. Protests will inevitably take a variety of shapes but a series of coordinated, decentralised actions and protests would make the message clearer and louder. A week, rather than a day, of action would allow groups more flexibility to do what they want to do.

By trying to widen the scope and diversity of the groups involved, we also want to draw attention to the fact that anti-deportation is not a 'single issue campaign'. People choose or are forced to migrate for a variety or reasons, from wars and armed conflicts fuelled by the arms trade and western interests, through poverty, exploitation, discrimination, gender oppression, domestic and state violence, to climate change.

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Surveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world

14-04-2010 15:27

At the bustling Counter Terror Expo in London’s Olympia this week they are giving top billing to the security industry’s favourite politician. “The most experienced cabinet minister of modern times”, they call him: Dr John Reid.

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Last week in Calais: Fascism, Tea and English classes

14-04-2010 14:25

Here is a summary of the last week in Calais by No Borders/Calais Migrant Solidarity activists working there

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Help stop the deportation of Nadina and Bashir

13-04-2010 15:56

This is a call out for people to contact airlines due to deport Nadina and Bashir this Wednesday 14th April asking them to refuse to fly this couple. Details below.