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Urgent: 40+ Asylum Seekers to be Deported Back to Iraq on 5 Sep

27-08-2006 21:12

40+ Iraqi Kurds, locked up in Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow, have received letters from the Home Office saying they will be forcefully removed to Northern Iraq on 5th September, 2006. Unconfirmed reports have it that there will be a 'charter flight' from Stanstead airport on that day.

The letters, in Kurdish, said that, when returned, deportees will receive a $100 'assistance' as well as accommodation for one month only. The faild Iraqi asylum seekers had been asked to sign 'voluntary return' agreements with the IOM but had refused to do so. There is also unconfirmed news that other Iraqis will be deported tomorrow, August 28th.

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Anti-Deportation Picket in Solihull

26-08-2006 06:09

Like on every last Friday of the past few months, a picket was held yesterday at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull. The 'theme' for this month was "stop racist deportations!" Many of the 'usual faces' could not make it down (was it due to the Climate Change Camp, the newly occupied Cottage Social Centre or, perhaps, summer holidays?), so the turn-up was less than in previous month and the demo less lively. But the 'pitch' still looked crowded as bigger-than-normal numbers of asylum seekers had to sign on on that day due to the Bank Holiday on Monday.

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Ilengela Must Stay

24-08-2006 18:58

Ilengela Ileo
Ilengela Ileo is a 30 year old woman facing deportation to the DRC. She has lived in the UK for 3 years with her Mum and baby Sister who have leave to remain. She knows nobody in the DRC, her 4 brothers and 1 sister are missing presumed dead. We want the Home Office to allow her stay with her family on compassionate grounds. Please give us your support.

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Asylum Seeker - between Life and Death

24-08-2006 15:41

An asylum seeker's story...

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Anti-Deportation Picket in Solihull This Friday

22-08-2006 11:29

While the number of forced deportations is alreadly reaching unprecedented records, and asylum seekers of ceratin nationalities (Iraqis and Zimbabweans, for example) are facing the prospect of mass deportation campaigns in the near future, Birmingham NoBorders and Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign are holding their monthly picket at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull this coming Friday, 25 August, 2006.

The picket at Sandford House (41 Homer Road, Solihull) will start at 12 noon to highlight this dim reality and demand an end to all deportations of asylum seekers. Come along and show your anger and disgust!

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Keep the Mutamba Family Together

21-08-2006 13:18

Evariste and his family at their home in Glasgow
After capturing and detaining him at Brand Street, the Home Office are attempting to separate Glasgow resident Evariste from his wife and children. Please take action to prevent this. Come along to a Unity demonstration outside the Home Office, Brand St, Glasgow, on Wednesday 23rd August at 12.00pm to support Evariste and his family.

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DEMO DALLAS COURT - THURSDAY 24TH AUGUST 2006

20-08-2006 22:12

The Defend Eucharia and Timeyi Campaign, North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! are calling a demonstration/protest for Thursday, 24 August 2006, at 10.00 am outside Dallas Court Reception Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays.

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Close Down Dallas Court - Report 18 August

20-08-2006 10:48

Defend Asylum Seekers
On 18 August 2006, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, asylum seekers as well as other anti-racist campaigners gathered outside Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford Quays, to protest against the racist treatment of asylum seekers and the continued kidnapping of people at Dallas Court. Including the recent kidnap and transfer to Campsfield, on Wednesday, 16 August of Jean Lobouka from Congo (Brazzaville), when he went to sign.

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BBC Today Gets Undocumented Migrant Arrested

19-08-2006 16:41

There was an outrageous piece on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme the other day exposing the 'scandal' of the Home Office not arresting and deporting undocumented workers. As part of the report, BBC reporter John Minel entraped a worker into talking about his immigration status, and then betrayed him to the Home Office, leading to the man's arrest and imprisonment.

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28%: 'Removals Failure' Rate

19-08-2006 16:18

The Daily Mail today published a report about "hundreds of asylum seekers escaping deportation." But whlie the newspaper, famous for its racist attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers, attributed this 'failure' to the "incompetence by the Government's shambolic immigration department", activists and anti-deportation campaigns quite surely have a lot to do with it.

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The Cachan Thousand Being Evicted

19-08-2006 15:44

A big operation has begun to evict up to 1,000 immigrants, who have been occupying a former student hostel in Cachan, on the outskirts of Paris, for over 5 years. The block, which is mainly occupied by undocumented immigrants and homeless people, is one of the biggest squats in Europe.

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Recent account of life in Baghdad from Iraqi refugee.

19-08-2006 15:04

This piece contains an eye-witness acount of life in Baghdad written by an Iraqi refugee who has recently returned to her home town.

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Delegation to Mexico Border Social Forum

18-08-2006 16:45

Border Social Forum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
October 13-15 2006

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stop Zimbabwe deportations

17-08-2006 15:20

A meeting for Zimbabweans and their friends.

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Voices of Pakistani Women Detained in UK

16-08-2006 17:19

"We always are the slippers of our husbands"

A statement from Maliha, Sajjida, Farzana, Sadia, Adibunnisa, Masooma and Heenia, seven Pakistani women currently Imprisoned in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre

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Urgent Appeal on Behalf of the Doldur Family

16-08-2006 17:09

Please help ensure that this family don't get removed before their Judicial Review is heard.

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Refugees Return to South Beirut - Mon 14th Aug - Photo Report

16-08-2006 14:44

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Mon 14th Aug: Today Beirut began to return to life. Shops are opening and the roads are jammed with traffic. For the first time since I have been here people are obeying the traffic lights. Hundreds of refugees are flooding back into the devastated south Beirut district of Dhayiya, with a dignity that is breathtaking.

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Liverpool Asylum 'Victims' Start Campaign

16-08-2006 13:15

Formation of a campaign against the New Asylum Model which has already claimed one life

Organising meeting to start the campaign
6.30pm Thursday 17th August
Asylum Link, 7 Overbury Street, Liverpool, L7 3HJ

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Depression, Deprivation and Death in Asylum Prisons

15-08-2006 14:34

A few months ago I was taking the bus into town. An old man in front of me nudged his bored wife and pointed to some workmen building some new flats. “The government are giving them to those bloody asylum seekers” he told her. A rumour or even lie had been passed on as truth, presumably because the man himself felt hard done by. I cringed, but it seemed easiest to keep silent, even though a sign clearly said the flats were for students. Today, I present the truth as told by some asylum seekers in Liverpool, to the one decent Daily Post/Liverpool Echo reporter. It is far, far worse than that old man could probably imagine. No-one should be illegal, and good housing should be available for everyone, wherever they come from.

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Revival of West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaigns

14-08-2006 12:28

With the number of forced deportations reaching unprecedented records and asylum seekers of ceratin nationalities (Iraqis and Zimbabweans, for example) facing the prospect of mass deportation campaigns in the near future, a number of failed and successful asylum seekers, along with their supporters, met yesterday in Birmingham to build up campaigns against their possible deportation. The result was reviving the West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaigns (WMADC), which disbanded in 2000, after 15 years of successful campaigns.