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Sudan deportation failed

28-03-2007 10:37

Mohammed Abdulhadi Ali, one of the Sudan nationals who was to be deported last night refused to fly and is back in detention.

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Darfur Asylum Seekers (Removals)

28-03-2007 10:24

..."the removal by the Home Office to Khartoum of failed asylum
seekers from Darfur."

The immediate pretext for my request is the fact that the Home Office
is minded tomorrow to remove no fewer than three such people on
flights to Khartoum, and there are plans for further removals next
week.

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Mustafa to be deported from Heathrow

27-03-2007 19:34

Our friend Mustafa is due to be deported this evening on a commercial British Airways flight.

The flight number is GF008 and leaves at 22:00.

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Mark McGowan Aaron Barschak to Burn Effigy of MP Liam Byrne in Birmingham

27-03-2007 15:09

effigy burning
BURNING OF LIAM BYRNE EFFIGY

In an extra ordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan and the comedian Aaron Barschak are to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few. The event is to take place this Saturday 31st March at 12.30am in Birmingham New Street at the junction with Needless Alley, just outside Starbucks.

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Home Office round-up Darfur refused asylum seekers for deportation

27-03-2007 14:01


It has been brought to the attention of NCADC that the Home Office
have for the past five days been rounding up nationals of Sudan who
have been refused asylum in the UK and that they intend to deport
them to Khartoum.

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Demo at Sheldon Immigration Court has been cancelled tomorrow

27-03-2007 13:56

pictures from last saturday's meeting in Ladywood Birmingham
The demonstration against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Sheldon Immigration Court in Birmingham has been cancelled, and is being re-scheduled for April.

The other 6 nationally co-ordinated demos are still going ahead.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365846.html

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Anti-racist protest/stall - Saturday 31 March 2007, 12-3pm

26-03-2007 11:50

As the racist Labour governments' attacks on immigrants and especially asylum seekers intensifies (ESOL, snatch squads, charter flights, etc), anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding anti-deportation stalls/protest on Saturday 31 March from 12pm-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. You are invited to attend and take an active part. Actions speak louder than words. Say no to the racist Labour government's policies of starvation, isolation, detention and deportation of asylum seekers and refugees, where it matters: on the streets.

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Glasgow: Brand Street Blockaded by Tripod

26-03-2007 05:41

Home Office Reporting Centre at Brand Street, Glasgow is blocked with a person up a tripod.

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Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations

23-03-2007 13:55

The 'Central African Development Action' (CADA) in Birmingham and the 'Congo Support Project' invite you to a Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations. Saturday, 24 March, 2007 at 4.30pm to 7.30pm. Venue: Ladywood Art Leisure Centre, 316 Monument Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 8TR.

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Round up of Darfurians in progress?

23-03-2007 13:06

At least 8 Sudanese Darfurians were detained yesterday, 22 March, when they went to report at Loughborough Reporting Centre in the East Midlands. All were served notice that their fresh claims were denied.

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Stop The Deportation of Asylum Seekers to Sudan Protest

23-03-2007 12:51

Please come and demonstrate outside the Bridewell, between the Magistrates Court and the Family Court by the Canal near the railway station tomorrow morning 24.03.07 at 10 a.m.for our detained Sudanese friends who were arrested when they signed at Loughborough yesterday. At least 8 from this area have been detained -

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7 Demonstrations Against Deportations to DR Congo Wednesday 28th March 2007

22-03-2007 12:43

Earlier this month hundreds of protesters gathered at demonstrations at the Asylum & Immigration Tribunal and Enforcement Units in Manchester , Glasgow and beyond.
7 further demonstrations around the UK will take place on Wednesday March 28th.

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Aksu Family belong to Glasgow

22-03-2007 06:18

Yamur Aksu
Yamur didn't get a chance to blow out the candles on her cake. Instead her mum and dad were handcuffed and with her, her sister, 14-year-old Pinar, and her brother, 10-year-old Byram, were taken in a blacked out van to the Dungavel Detention Centre. Two days later they were transferred to Yarl's Wood IRC.

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Waku Family Must Stay

22-03-2007 06:15

Max Jean-Marc Grace Onoya
At 7.00am on Monday the 19th March 2007 the Waku family were awakened when Immigration Officers forcibly entered their home in Cardonald. The children watched their dad being handcuffed and led out of the house to a waiting van. The rest of the family were then removed one by one from their home and put into waiting vans. They are now in Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.

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Plea for help for Dagon family from Newcastle

22-03-2007 06:12

On Friday 23rd March 2007 yet another Kurdish Alevi family from Newcastle are due to be deported to Turkey against their will on British Airways flight BA676. Café Dagon has lived in England since 2000 and his wife Hatice and his children Aidin (18) and Aysun (15) joined him a year later in 2001.

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Stop Deportation to the Congo

21-03-2007 16:52

The Home Office plans to deport more Congolese people from the UK in spite of evidence that it is not only still unsafe for them to return but that the situation is worsening.

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Lobby to keep English lessons free

21-03-2007 12:54

Save ESOL petition and placards
While constituents of Siôn Simon MP talked to him in his surgery, supporters of a campaign to keep English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes free of charge were outside collecting a petition in Erdington High St. They had a warm welcome from many local residents.

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Another Kurdish TCAR family snatched

21-03-2007 11:22

Another Kurdish family who have been living in Newcastle for the last 6 years, and who have been active members of TCAR (Tyneside Community Action for Refugees) are due to be deported to Turkey this Friday. There will be an EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION against the family's deportation on Wednesday 21st March, 4.30-5.30pm outside Government Offices North East, Gallowgate (opposite St James Park metro).

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Stop the Deportation of the Dagon family - We need your help

21-03-2007 09:55

On Friday 23 March 2007 yet another Kurdish Alevi family from Newcastle are due to be deported to Turkey against their will on flight BA676. Café Dagon has lived in England since 2000 and his wife Hatice and his children Aidin (18) and Aysun (15) joined him a year later in 2001.

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Unrest in Immigration Detention Centres

20-03-2007 23:33

There is a history of resistance against detention which goes back to the day detention centres first opened. Uprisings and hunger strikes have always happened inside these monstruos institutions, but they seem to be on the increase, especially in the last five years. This is more than likely a result of incarcerating larger masses of increasingly desperate people.