UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Manchester Demo Against Deportations and Repression in Ethiopia

07-12-2006 10:15

About 40 people, mainly from Manchester's Ethiopian community, joined a protest against all deportations in particualr highlighting repression in Ethiopia

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Sheffield Refugees get further police harrassment

05-12-2006 21:58

Cops arrive at Sheffield house in early morning and threaten violence after being refused entry. After community support arrives and several hours talking they leave promising to return with tools to breakdown the door. The threat turns out to be empty.

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Kurdish family snatched and face deportation 06/11/06: TCAR Mobilises on Tyneside

05-12-2006 12:38

On Tuesday 5 December around 25 refugees and local people living in Newcastle gathered outside Government Offices North East to say: ‘Immigration is no crime, End detention! Deportation is the crime, Lock up Labour!’. This comes in the wake of a week of protests inside Britain’s immigration detention centres, and follows the detention of a Kurdish asylum seeking family at their home in Fenham in the early hours of Monday morning, with the intention to deport them to Turkey on Turkish Airlines flight TK1980, leaving Heathrow at 11.45am this Wednesday. (this is the same flight booked for Hassan from Unity in Glasgow -

http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3440/index.php) Tyneside Community Action for Refugees took to the streets Tuesday morning to protest against all immigration detention, and to demand the immediate release of Hidayet Ozdemir, his pregnant wife Hatin and their two children, 12 year old Denniz and 7 year old Guseren.

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Glasgow: 6 Kids Abducted in 2 Days

04-12-2006 13:52

Dawn Raids on Sunday and Monday in Glasgow have taken 2 families with young children away from their communities. Where's your protocol now Mr McConnell?

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This Weeks SchNEWS - Get Me Out Of Here

04-12-2006 12:08

LACK OF REALITY TV SPARKS RIOTS AT HARMONDSWORTH

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Solidarity Demonstatrio for the Hamrondsworth Heros

04-12-2006 06:07

80 demonstrators protested outside Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centres on Sunday the 3rd Decembeer 2006

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Todays demo at Harmondsworth Detention Centre

03-12-2006 21:14

On Sunday the 3rd of December, around 60 people went to Harmondsworth Detention Centre (near Heathrow) to show their support and solidarity after the revolt that took place there earlier in the week.

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Campaign for London cleaners: Call for Demo.

03-12-2006 21:06

After two weeks of demonstrations and actions, including the occupation of Goldman Sachs headquarters, the cleaners celebrate their victory and move into the next stage.

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TCAR prepares for solidarity action with Harmondsworth and Yarl's wood protests

03-12-2006 19:31

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) is in complete solidarity with the detention centre protesters at Harmondsworth and Yarl's wood. We have called an action this saturday (9th Decemeber) 12 noon- Monument, Newcastle city centre to show our support and raise the profile of the brave action these asylum seekers have taken and their success in releasing 150 detainees across the UK. End detention! End deportation! Together we are stronger!

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Singing Session at Campsfield House Detention Centre

02-12-2006 15:28

Today, four people from Oxford Student Action for Refugees (STAR) group and a random singer (me!) went to facilitate a singing workshop at Campsfield House Detention Centre.

Here's a personal account of the session.

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Harmondworth Solidarity Demo at Kalyx

02-12-2006 06:45

Inside and Outside the Camp: Resistance Continues
This is a statement by London No Borders on the Uprising at Harmondsworth IRC and the protests at UK Detention Centres and the solidarity action we did outside Kalyx on Friday Night

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Harmondsworth Detention Centre Solidarty Demo // 12noon // Sunday 3rd December

02-12-2006 00:00

Solidarity action to communicate our support to the people trapped
inside the detention centres. A coach will leave from ULU, Malet Street,
WC1at 10.30am. (Called by Barbed Wire Britain supported by London No Border

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Harmondsworth Solidarity

01-12-2006 20:59

Report of demonstration today outside London HQ of Kalyx, the private company running Harmondsworth detention centre

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OutRage!- gay refugees abused at UK detention centre.

01-12-2006 16:42

OutRage! reveals the abuse of lgbt people held in Harmondsworth. (and demands all such places should be closed.)

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Families on Hungerstrike in Yarl's Wood Detention Centre

01-12-2006 15:40

Many of the adults detained in Yarl's Wood have refused food this morning (1 Dec 2006) in protest at conditions in the centre. There has been an outbreak of diarrhea amongst the children under 5 and many of the children are not eating as they find the food unpalatable. 70 adults and 40 children are currently detained in the family unit of Yarl's Wood IRC.

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The truth behind the deportation statistics

30-11-2006 22:06

We have seen this week what detention at Harmondsworth and Lindholme have driven people to, here's why...

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Demonstration at Harmondsworth/Colnbrook

30-11-2006 19:42

A large scale disturbance broke out at Harmondsworth after HM Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) published a report on Harmondsworth which it described as "Undoubtedly the poorest report" issued on any immigration removal centre to date.

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John Reid Invokes Riechstag Fire Tactics For Detention Centre Fire

30-11-2006 16:46

Home Secretary invents fictional "immigrant terrorist" group to increase support for it's nationalist policies

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Demonstrate at Kalyx/Sodexho HQ! Solidarity with Harmondsworth uprising!

30-11-2006 15:59

Demonstrate at Kalyx/Sodexho HQ! Solidarity with Harmondsworth uprising!

3.30pm to 5.30pm Friday, 1st December 2006
Headquarters of Kalyx on Edgware Road
25 Chapel Street NW1, Nearest tube Edgware Rd.

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Urgent: Yarl's Wood Quarantined

30-11-2006 15:10

Asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood have claimed today that Yarl's Wood IRC is quarantined and that visitors are not being allowed in due to the dangerous health conditions there.