UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Inqlab Against the Cuts! A Benefit night for destitute asylum seekers in Brum.

01-07-2011 22:34

The Con-Dem government's austerity drive is due to wreak even more devastation on the lives of some of the most oppressed and marginalised people in the UK. Come and show your support for a small human rights advocacy charity, working to improve the lives of thosewho have fled persecution and been left in destitution by the UK's racist immigration policies.

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Release Juan Ibrahim, victim of torture and abuse by the Syrian regime, the UK Border Agency and G4S

01-07-2011 22:22

* Syrian victim of torture kept in immigration detention in breach of the UKBA's own Detention Centre Rules.
* New asylum claim dismissed, medical and objective evidence overlooked, because it's easier for the UKBA to shrug it off as a third country Dublin II case. He is due to be deported to Bulgaria on 6th July.
* Instead of being offered adequate treatment for post-traumatic stress and self-harm injuries, he is put in isolation and cut off from the outside world.
* Denied access to papers, phone and other belongings by the G4S management.
* On hunger strike since Monday, 27th June, in protest at his mistreatment by the immigration authorities and the detention centre management.
* Please see below for what you can do to help.

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Calais: Africa House demolition, Global House eviction

28-06-2011 18:00

'Africa House' has been evicted and is now being demolished. Yesterday 27th June police raided the squat, home of about 100 people with and without papers, forcefully removing everyone. Another squat was opened, 'Global House', but evicted the same evening. People have been made homeless and destitute back on the streets of Calais...

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Calais: Africa House evicted, 'Global House' under threat

27-06-2011 17:09

Africa House was finally evicted this morning....

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Deportation flight to Iraq blockaded and stopped

26-06-2011 20:00

No Borders and refugee solidarity activists blockaded the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook immigration prisons, near Heathrow airport on 21 June to stop a mass deportation flight to Baghdad. About 70 Iraqi refugees, mostly Kurds, were due to be forcibly flown on a specially chartered flight from an undisclosed airport at 11pm. A last-minute court injunction forced the Home Office to call it off, so the blockaders decided to end their protest at 9pm, after making sure that the migration prisoners were safely off the buses. The action was an important step in escalating resistance to the deportation machine, in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Campsfield, the rioters in Brook House, the Yarlswood four, and all migration prisoners in their everyday struggle.

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LulzSec hacks Arizona border police

24-06-2011 13:54

On Thursday the hacker group LulzSec published on Pirate Bay leaked documents hacked from Arizona's Department of Public Safety. The documents highlight brutality, corruption, and racism in the US state's police forces including those patrolling the deadly US/Mexican border.

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Blockade of Heathrow detention centre to stop Iraq deportation flight

21-06-2011 16:30

Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London this evening.

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Emergency picket of the Italian Embassy, Wednesday 22/06/11 20 June, 2011

20-06-2011 20:57

A demonstration is to be held outside the Italian Embassy, London this Wednesday afternoon in response to what the organisers of the protest have labelled ‘an outrageous attack on the human rights of not just so-called legal and illegal immigrants, but all European and non-European citizens’.

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Emergency picket of Italian Embassy and meeting

20-06-2011 10:06

The Italian government is passing the most repressive and racist 'emergency decrees' in the name of an 'emergency' that does not exist, regarding migration from the Middle Ease in uprising.
Roma and irregular migrants are being round up and taken to deportation centres where all right have been suspended.

Over 1800 recorded deaths since the beginning of the year in attempts to cross the Mediterranean.

Protest, protest, protest!

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Stop deportations to Iraq!

16-06-2011 23:21

The UK government is planning a mass expulsion of mostly Kurdish refugees to Baghdad on Tuesday 21 June, at 23:00 hours. Campaigners, lawyers and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees have all raised serious concerns over the safety of the deportees in Iraq.

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Two men deported from Lye

13-06-2011 14:16

Two men have been arrested in Lye under the Immigration Act as part of a joint police and UK Border Agency crackdown on “illegal” immigrants.

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Confirmed: Charter Flight to Sri Lanka 17:00 hrs 16th June

11-06-2011 01:23

A number of Sri Lankans (mostly Tamils), currently in detention, have contacted 'Freemovement' to say they have Removal Directions for this date.

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Open the Borders: No One Is Illegal public meeting, Oxford, June 16th

09-06-2011 14:12

Public meeting against immigration controls, and for a new politics based on equality, solidarity and freedom of movement for all, organised by No One Is Illegal (UK). Speakers: Victoria Brittain, Rahila Gupta and Tracy Walsh.

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Ugandan lesbian awaiting deportation from the UK

09-06-2011 10:45

"... We, the undersigned, are calling upon the UK Border Agency and the British Government to give Betty Tibikawa leave to remain in the UK, with refugee status, and to stop deporting people persecuted for their sexual orientation... "

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Refugees on hunger strike to protest planned deportations.

08-06-2011 17:01

24 Iraqi refugees held in a detention centre in Oxford have started a hunger
strike to protest against the government's plans to deport them to Baghdad.

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Download! Dissident Island June 3rd 2011

07-06-2011 22:02

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW HERE:

http://www.archive.org/details/DissidentIslandRadio-3June2011-Episode83

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Calais latest and urgent callout for support

07-06-2011 01:38

Activists in Calais are seriously thin on the ground at the moment; if you can come even for a few days to give those who have been there for months a break, then please don't hesitate!

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Migrants and supporters demonstrate in Calais

30-05-2011 22:48

On Saturday 28 May around 150 people took to the streets of Calais in a demonstration against the brutal repression against migrants in the French border town. Despite a heavy police presence and smatterings of rain the event went well: no arrests or cop attacks, just lots of emotion and energy.

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Trouble at Brook House IRC

29-05-2011 10:55

Continuing harsh relation between staff and detainees, has once again lead to protest

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Anti-racist Campaign

25-05-2011 21:58

The antinational and communst federation Ums Ganze has launched a campaign against socialchauvinism and racism in austria and germany. This is the call to the campaign.

http://top-berlin.net/?page_id=265