UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

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Jahongir Sidikov facing deportation for torture on Wednesday 28th November

26-11-2007 20:47

Craig Murray wrote today: "Wednesday 28 November has now been set as the date for Jahongir Sidikov's deportation. The Home Office have received an impressive number of representations, including a united one from effectively all of Uzbekistan's opposition and human rights groups. We now need a further push to try to save this man's life."

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/11/airport_roundup.html

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Happy 14th Birthday Meltem Avcil: A Dark Day for a Young Girl

26-11-2007 01:33

This is how, after mass media interest into the story of 14-year-old Meltem Avcil, the UK authorities tried to make this young girl and her mother disappear in a pure case of washing your hands of the problem.

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Ken Loach & NoBorders in Crawley Tuesday 27th November

25-11-2007 13:09

On Tuesday 27th November, renowned filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Sweet Sixteen, Kes) is coming to Crawley to show and talk about his new film "It's a Free World...". This film is a drama about a single mother and depicts the reality of living and working in the UK as a so-called illegal immigrant.

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Campsfield IRC Anniversary demonstration / Saturday 24 November 2007

24-11-2007 19:58

Fourteen years too long! Close Campsfield!
Close all detention centres! Stop all detentions and deportations!
For freedom of movement and the right to stay!

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Help needed for this family

24-11-2007 18:11

Please help Humaira Qudoos HO Ref Q1043430 - Due to be forcibly removed at 5pm on Sunday evening.
URGENT!
At 5.15pm on Friday evening Humaira Qudoos' old lawyer received a fax from the Home Office informing him that fresh removal directions had been set for 5pm on Sunday evening.
Humaira and her three daughters are due to be taken from Heathrow to Karachi in Pakistan on Pakistan International Airlines flight PK788 at 17.00 hours on Sunday 25 November.

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Meltem Avcil, 14, released from detention

24-11-2007 14:10

Thanks to a very energetic campign from SOAS detainee support group and Positive Action in Housing. And especially thanks to the courage and determination of Meltem herself, who resisted deportation by every mean at her disposal.

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Janipher Maseko, yet another asylum horror story

24-11-2007 14:03

Janipher Maseko fled Uganda after her mother died and she was raped by armed rebels. She was 13 when she arrived in the UK. She was looking for a place of safety. This is what she found.

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Stop the Deportation of Jahongir Sidikov!

22-11-2007 20:10

Jahongir Sidikov is being held in Harmondswoth Detention Centre and faces forceful deportation to Uzbekistan where he faces prison, torture and death. Craig Murray has written about his case here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386193.html and below is a repost from Areopagitica with some more background information.

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A Soldier Wars for God and Country - Heroin Smuggled in Body Bag of GIs

22-11-2007 15:34

Look, families are threatened with arrest for not agreeing
to cause neurological damage to their children. The cause
for why their children are not in school, is not the parents
fault, but the unlawful decision by the health authority to
not allow the children in school.

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Invitation to next Meeting: "Defend the Harmondsworth 4!"

22-11-2007 12:25

In November 2006 detainees at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre
protested against conditions inside the centre and their treatment by
the guards.

The centre was damaged and the detainees were moved to other detention
centres and prisons.

In previous years there have been defence campaigns following similar
incidences at Campsfield and Yarls Wood.

Please come to help building a powerful campaign.

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Immigrant struggles, homeless struggles in France

21-11-2007 19:41

France: immigrants demonstrate against repression.
France: organisation amongst the homeless

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Britain Institutes Death Penalty

20-11-2007 18:54

For the first time, Britain will tomorrow deport a failed asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan. Jahongir Sidikov, a member of the banned main opposition party Erk, is currently held in Harmondswoth Detention Centre. His ticket has already been purchased for deportation tomorrow.

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Asylum applications, deportations and detention

20-11-2007 18:19

Home Office latest figures.
Detention cetres full at 95% capacity

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Two vigils demanding the release of Meltem Avcil from Yarl's Wood

20-11-2007 18:11

Two vigils demanding the release of 14-year-old Meltem Avcil from Yarl's Wood removal centre. Meltem’s birthday is tomorrow Wednesday 21 November 2007.

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Calling international solidarity with the anti-fascist murdered by a nazi in...

17-11-2007 13:12

Calling international solidarity with the anti-fascist murdered by a nazi in Madrid

Recently nazy-groups' agressions have increased in Madrid, assaulting immigrants by daylight under total authorities' impunity.

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Kurdish Girl Meltem Avcil Deportation Halted

16-11-2007 01:18

Following the protest on Wednesday 14 November and the release of the video on Indymedia UK, the deportation of the 14-year-old Kurdish refugee Meltem Avcil was halted.

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Make Deportations Impossible!

16-11-2007 00:10

Currently in Austria the number of deportations is increasing. The forced deportations of "well-integrated" families has provoked particular outrage. More and more frequently people are pulled out of their beds in the early morning, brought to deportation jails, and are kicked out of the country in the course of mass deportations by charter flights. In this way numerous people are deported, although entire towns demand their right to stay.

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Past their fly by dates

15-11-2007 13:22

The Home Office doesn't always have it their way, when it comes to deporting people from the UK

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Hamedullah Hassani Must Stay

15-11-2007 13:17

Hamedullah, is currently in Oakington Immigration Removal Centre and is to be removed from the UK on Tuesday 20th November, by 'Charter flight Ravel'. 'Ravel' is the operational name for the Home Office regular deportation flights to Afghanistan.

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Our key legal principles must not succumb to witch hunt mentality

15-11-2007 10:43

"This debate is not about Italy or Romania it is about Europe and the life of its citizens" Italian GUE/NGL MEP Roberto Musacchio told Commissioner Frattini during tonight's European Parliamentary debate on Directive 2004/38/EC on the mobility and residence rights of EU citizens and their families.