UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

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Solidarity with the hunger strikers

27-07-2007 01:36

Please pledge to go on a one day hunger strike in solidarity with the Tamil nationals in deportation centres.

http://www.gopetition.com/online/13549.html

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Thoughts on Virginia Tech and Racism

26-07-2007 23:00

The Virginia Tech massacre of three months ago remains the subject of task force investigations. But none appear to be examining the role that race played in fertilizing the killing grounds.

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New Hunger Strikes Threaten Campsfield: Oxford's

26-07-2007 18:44

++Government refuses to spend £1bn/year to
protect against real floods; instead wastes
£1.5bn on an imaginary one.++

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No Border Camp Meeting And Demonstrations Announced

26-07-2007 07:47

Next planning meeting and demonstration

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Building Works For New Detention Centre Started

25-07-2007 15:51

Immigration Minister Liam Byrne today helped break the ground for a new removal centre at Gatwick. The Home Office also published the name of the new Prison: Brook House.

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Appeal by Sri Lankan Tamils on hunger strike, detained at Haslar IRC

24-07-2007 14:02

While the Sri Lankan government is engaged in bombing, killing, torturing and terrifying into leave its Tamil citiziens, the UK government is sending them back to genocide.

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Sri Lankan detainees go on hunger strike in Harmondsworth

23-07-2007 18:06

Some 29 Sri Lankan Tamil nationals have reportedly gone on hunger strike at the Harmondsworth detention centre in London in protest at a Home Office decision to deport them back to Sri Lanka tomorrow. Harmondsworth has been the sight of continued resistance, with repeated hunger strikes, riots and demonstrations.

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Outstanding Asylum-Seeker Artist holds Art Exhibition in London.

21-07-2007 09:54

Brilliant young visual artist Behnam Askari, who is under threat of being returned to Iran where he is under threat of prison and torture, is holding a solo Art Exhibition, Le Beau Salon, at Burgh House in Hampstead.

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Iranian refugees remember Babak Ahadi at Sheldon Court

18-07-2007 17:15

Members of Birmingham's Iranian Refugee Association today held a commemorative picket at the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal (IAT) in Sheldon, Birmingham, to remember the death of their friend Babak Ahadi, who took his own life two years ago. Babak, born in Iran in 1972, set himself on fire on 5 July, 2005, after his asylum claim was dismissed by the IAT at Sheldon Court. He had fled Iran in 2002 after an Islamic group threatened to expose that he had converted to Christianity, which would have led to his execution.

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Funke & Joseph belong to Glasgow - Urgent action needed

18-07-2007 12:44

Funke Olubiyi and her young son Joseph from Nigeria were detained on Monday 16th July at around midday when they went to sign in the Home Office in Glasgow. They were taken to Dungavel the same day and now they have a removal date for tomorrow Thursday 19th July from Gatwick airport.

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Dawn Raid and Arrests in Glasgow

18-07-2007 12:37

This morning the Home Office attempted a dawn raid on a flat in the Sighthill district of Glasgow. Their target wasn't home but 4 people were detained.

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The brain drain

18-07-2007 11:56

Our world order appears to have been designed to foster the egoism, individualism and dehumanization of humanity...

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Come and give a workshop, talk or presentation at the No Border Camp!

18-07-2007 11:07

Invitation to contribute workshops and discussions at the No Border Camp, near Gatwick, UK, 19th-24th September 2007.

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Can you help find stuff for the No Border camp?

17-07-2007 23:02

This is a wish list of stuff that we will need to get our hands on for the No Border Camp, which will take place near Gawtick form 19th-24th September 2007.

Please help us beg, borrow, steal or freecycle the stuff!

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Asylum applicants dispersed and being moved away from Portsmouth City

17-07-2007 00:17

Read below for the details of a Portsmouth solidarity intervention.
How to grow - reflect, reflect, reflect!

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Remember Babak Ahadi

16-07-2007 13:57

In mmory of Babak and all the other victims of the Home Office's "firm, fast and fair" policies.

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Commemorative Protest at Sheldon Immigration Court Birmingham

16-07-2007 13:40

On Wednesday 18th July between 12:00 pm and 14:00 pm, members of the Birmingham's Iranian Refugee Association will be holding a commemorative protest at the Asylum & Immigration Tribunal, Sheldon Court to remember the death of their close friend, Babak Ahadi, two years ago.

Babak committed suicide in Bristol after hearing his asylum claim was refused by the Immigration Tribunal at Sheldon Court, in July 2005. Babak was an Iranian Asylum Seeker who fled Iran in 2002 after converting to Christianity and an Islamic group threatened to expose him which would have led to his execution.

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Astonbrook: another asylum-profiteering company exposed

15-07-2007 22:30

Police have raided Birmingham-based asylum accommodation provider Astonbrook Housing Association after it emerged that the 'charity' had been, among other things, inventing asylum seekers to claim millions from the Home Office and the City Council. Two years ago, another housing provider contracted by the Home Office, the Angel Group, was being investigated for fraud.

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Friday 13th July - 5 Demonstrations against Deportations to DRC

12-07-2007 10:47

3 more Demonstrations against Deportations to DR Congo

Middlesbrough, Glasgow, Cardiff, London and Manchester

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Sanctuary in Swansea for the Dadkhah Family

11-07-2007 05:12

Farzaneh Dadkhah is an Iranian political activist who, together with her daughters, Syed and Romisa has been refused asylum in the UK and is in fear of destitution and deportation.