UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Nottingham against detention centres & deportations - Harmondsworth, Heathrow

12-02-2007 10:44

Nottingham contigent numbered 8 out of a 150-strong Feb 10th demo outside privately run detention centres at Heathrow, too big for the small pen cops wanted us in. See photos of a Serco/Sodexho screw (they turned up in pairs shortly before visiting time - cops stopping visitors entering until we'd gone. Police 'intelligence gathering' as well. We also manage to make contact with inmate(s).

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They shall not pass - demo @ kalyx/Colnbrook 10th February 2007

11-02-2007 15:59

200 + demonstrators from all over the UK supported the demo outside Kalyx/Colnbrook called by the 'No Borders Network'

Police bottle it
For over an hour no traffic passed in or out of the complex as the police gave up trying to clear a path through the assembled protestors.

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Photos: No Borders Demo @ Kalyx/ColnBrook

11-02-2007 14:29

More photos of the action outside Kalyx/ColnBrook detention centres called by No Borders London.

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More from Harmondsworth 10/2

11-02-2007 00:26

Around 250 people assembled outside Harmondsworth today, a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters. Some had travelled by coach from as far away as Manchester, Leeds and Bradford. Some played Samba. Some wanted to give long speeches and pump their ego's for the Labour leadership race.

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Photos from Harmondsworth and Colnbrook demo

10-02-2007 20:15

Today about 250 people went to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres to protest against the locking up, and deportation of migrants and asylum seekers.

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First Report from the NoBorders Demo in Harmondsworth

10-02-2007 13:00

12:35pm. About 250 protesters gathered outside the gates of Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow. Two buses from London, one from Leeds and a number of minibuses from Brighton, Manchester and Reading carried people there despite bad weather conditions. There are also many refugees on the demo: Kurdish, Iranian, Congolese and others.

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Deportations Imminent

09-02-2007 21:10

This afternoon about thirty Bristol residents participated in a demonstration of support for two asylum seekers. This demonstration was announced at very short notice after people heard of the plight of these two men. See the original Bristol IndyMedia article:

http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25854

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Iranian refugees in Birmingham demonstrate against the Islamic regime in Iran

09-02-2007 16:18

Iranian refugees from Birmingham's Iranian Refugee Association braved the snow this afternoon in Birmingham City Centre to protest against the Islamic regime of Iran and voice their opposition to any imminent military attack on Iran by the UK and US governments.

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No Deportations to Kurdistan/Iraq Demonstrate Monday 12th February

09-02-2007 15:10

Demonstrate Monday 12th February 7.00am to 9.00am
Brize Norton
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Carterton
Oxfordshire
OX18 3LX

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The Movement for Justice in El Barrio

09-02-2007 10:47

Movement for Justice in El Barrio to Present a Message from the Zapatistas in New York

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asylum aid groups ignored a legal item that could have saved Abdullah Tokhi

06-02-2007 12:19

All the big national asylum aid groups, throughout the whole asylum hate era, have been cynically and without explanation ignoring a legal item, whose cover-up they could end, that is a massive advance in democracy and would help every asylum seeker. The Independent's story now proves lives have been cost by this.

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Blatant discrimination? Children, Asylum and Hillingdon Home Office apparatchiks

02-02-2007 19:07

How the Home Office's planned 'reforms' for children who claim asylum alone is already being implemented by the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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A World worth living

01-02-2007 19:04

(A World worth living)
- Those who provoke racism are parasites, we are laborers!
- We are not the reason for unemployment, we ourselves are unemployed!
- We are not dangerous but we ourselves are in danger!
- We want free education and health care and fair chance for all!
- Stop deportations! Status for all!

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Violation of migrants’ human rights in Morocco an “accident”

29-01-2007 19:29

Violation of migrants’ human rights in Morocco an “accident” says Commission official. The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held an exchange of views on the situation of migrants in Morocco on Monday, 22nd January.

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Noborders night Sat. 3rd February

27-01-2007 22:12

One week before the demonstration against detention Harmondsworth and Conbrook. Meet @ the Vortex Social Centre, Stoke Newington Church Street
from 6.30pm: ex-detinees speaking, film, discussion, workshops
from 9.30pm: bands and DJs, 52 Commercial Raod + others TBC,
veggie food, late bar
£ 5/3 donation

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The New Borders Bill: A More Fortress Britain

27-01-2007 15:21

The new Borders Bill, the fifth on immigration in eight years, was published on 26 January, 2007 (see Home Office's press release). It will equip the new Border and Immigration Agency with a wide range of new powers to "deter, detect and deport those breaking the rules and ensure that those foreign nationals legally in the UK play their part in upholding the rules."

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When You Raid Someone's Home at Dawn, That's a Dawn Raid

27-01-2007 00:36

The Home Office was recently asked in Parliament how many occasions over the last two years their officers carried out dawn raids on asylum seekers accompanied by the police. Immigration minister Liam Byrne's answer was that the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) "do not conduct 'raids' against asylum seekers." Officers, he insisted, "undertake operational visits to detain and remove persons who no longer have the right to remain in the UK and do so in line with operational policy and guidance." Byrne, however, revealed that there were 8,865 and 13,953 police-supported 'operations' in 2005 and 2006 respectively, some of which, he said, "would have been undertaken early in the morning for operational reasons."

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Government Operated Unlawful Policy Over the Detention of Young Asylum Seekers

27-01-2007 00:01

Home secretary John Reid admitted, during a High Court test case in which under-18's were seeking damages for loss of liberty, that the government operated an "unlawful policy" over the detention of scores of young asylum seekers. The asylum seekers, in four test cases, aged under 18 when they arrived unaccompanied in the UK but where treated as adults by the Home Office. Unaccompanied children as young as 14 have been detained with adults for long periods and subjected to inappropriate behaviour by staff and other detainees

Of course, the story was almost ignored by mainstream media, which preferred to focus on the released paedophile and the over-crowdedness of 'normal' prisons.

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Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

26-01-2007 09:51

Author and radio host Deepa Fernandes joins us to talk about her new book, “Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration.” Fernandes documents the hidden human struggles behind the immigration debate and exposes how big business has been a driving force in setting immigration policy.

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US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees

24-01-2007 17:01

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported this month that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has forced one out of every eight Iraqis to flee their homes—more than 3.7 million people. The agency described the refugee crisis caused by the Iraq war as the worst in the Middle East since the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948. The Zionist military and paramilitary death squads drove an estimated 711,000 Palestinian Arabs from their land.