UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Uk activist update from USA/Mexico No Borders camp

14-11-2007 18:19

2 people released from custody.
1 person remains in custody.
Facing life in prison or deportation to Colombia, was also denied medication in solitary confiment.

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15 Nov, London: Battlefields Without Borders - Iraq's Refugee Crisis

14-11-2007 00:38

Public meeting and film premiere with renowned US peace activist Kathy Kelly.

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Meltem, emergency demo tomorrow at 12 noon

13-11-2007 19:20

To put pressure on Germany we are having a demonstration in front of German Embassy,
23 Belgrave Square
London
SW1X 8PZ
nearest tube Sloane Square
tomorrow Wedesday 14th November 12.00 noon.

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Meltem, 14, and her mother, deportation Thursday

13-11-2007 12:32

Meltem Avcil and her mother Cennet, who have been held in Yarl's
Wood detention centre for almost three months, are facing removal to
Germany on 07.30 Hrs, Thursday 15 November. Meltem is just 14, and has
been living in this country for six years. We visited her last week and
saw how depressed and scared she was. Her mother and father were
persecuted in Turkey for being Kurds, and she and her mother are in a
terrible state at the prospect of being deported to Germany from where they
fear they will be sent on to Turkey.

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Protesters beaten & pepper sprayed at No Borders Camp - Mexicali.

12-11-2007 19:14

Uk activists report from No Borders Camp Mexicali/Calexico.
Peaceful protesters beaten & pepper sprayed.

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Urgent : Maud Lennard, Zimbawean woman on hunger-strike, removal tonight

12-11-2007 15:37

Maud Lennard, one of the Zimbawean women who have been hunger-striking for over 50 days has a removal scheduled for 7pm tonight on Kenya QAirways flight KQ101

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Reminder - Defend Harmondsworth 4 meeting in London this Tuesday

11-11-2007 23:31

Defend the Harmondsworth 4!

Public meeting called by No Borders London, supported by by Barbed Wire Britain: the Network to End Migrant and Refugee Detention, and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!

7pm, Tues 13th Nov, at the Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS

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No Borders anti-deportation stall, 10/11Cardiff

10-11-2007 20:12

No Borders activists in Cardiff took to the streets in support of Constance Nzeneu's campaign against her and her 4 month old son's deportation...

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Papers for All fundraising party

10-11-2007 13:01

Friday November 16th at the RAMPART SOCIAL CENTRE in Whitechapel.

Music and dance from aound the world: SOFIA BUCHUCK(Peruvian Singer), DEMONS IN PARADISE (electro acoustic) RUBEN H & THE LANDING SKY (indie rock) & ABLEDEI UK (African Drumming & Dance).
call 07 900 405 787 if you have questions or want to become involved.

£5 suggested donation

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Iraqi Kurds Protest Against Detention and Deportations today in London

10-11-2007 01:03

The 9th of November was a day of action Iraqi Kurdish refugees groups. In London a group of about 30 Iraqi Kurds demonstrated along with supporters from London NoBorders opposite the UNHCR. There were simultaneous demonstrations of 500 protesters in the Swiss city of Berne, and in Norway and Sweden

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Support Amdani Juma

07-11-2007 10:44

Amdani Juma is a Burundian refugee and worker at Nottingham & Notts Refugee Forum. He came to the UK in 2003 and was granted Humanitarian Protection. He recently applied for Indefinite Leave to Remain but was refused by the Home Office.

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Falode Family Belong to Belfast

06-11-2007 06:22

Aderonke Adenike Falode from Nigeria is a widow with three children, Dappo, 14, Deery, 12 and Boyeh 8. They lived happily as a family until, her husband died from a heart attack in 2003. After his death, her in-laws said that she must marry her husband's brother and that he would take control of her husband's property. Ronke refused (the brother-in-law is married) and at some stage violence was threatened against her property and those living in it.

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Clan Ebor demonstration Saturday November 3rd

06-11-2007 00:18

A bright Saturday morning saw around a hundred people turn out in support of
the 60 families targeted by the Home Office, as part of the Clan Ebor Pilot
project for fast track deportation.

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Fundraising Benefit for a newspaper for migrant voices

05-11-2007 18:16

Dear friends

We are doing a fundraising to publish a newspaper that gives voice to immigrants in the UK

please pass the information to your networks

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Please help Zola - Threatened with deportation after 16 years in the UK

05-11-2007 06:50

Nokuzola Zola Gidi, 53, has been resident in Swansea for 16 years. She left South Africa with her (now ex) husband who was an African National Congress (ANC) activist. Throughout virtually all her time here, Zola has supported herself by working a variety of cleaning jobs, often three at a time, and on minimum wage, despite severe and chronic back problems.

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Keep Constance and Andreas in Cardiff

05-11-2007 06:34

Constance Nzeneu is an asset to the Cardiff community where she has lived for 2 years and three months. Her son Andreas was born here. Andreas's father is German. He works in between Germany and the UK, and they have an ongoing relationship.

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Christian Rodrigue Mbianga / Needs Your Urgent Help

05-11-2007 06:30

Christian Rodrigue Mbianga from Cameroon, was arrested and detained by Glasgow Immigration on Wednesday 31 October 2007 when he attended for reporting. He is currently in detention facing forced removal on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101 to Cameroon on Monday 5 November 2007 at 19:00hrs.

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Picket of Border and Immigration Agency, Cardiff - Nov 6th

04-11-2007 23:24

A third picket is planned for the Cardiff branch of the Home Office's 'Border and Immigration Agency'...

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Defend the Harmondsworth 4!

03-11-2007 10:15

In January four detainees will go on trial charged with criminal damage following riots in Harmondsworth in November 2006. There is a public meeting in London on Tuesday 13th November to discuss how we can support the four before, during and after the trial.

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Meltem Avcil, aged 14, refused bail four times, self-harms in Yarl's Wood IRC

30-10-2007 19:43

Meltem, her mother Cennet and the family's solicitor have requested that this information is made public.