Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Another Death in Detention as UK detained Zimbabweans enter 6th day of Hunger St

posted by mouse | 27.06.2005 14:10

A young man in Campsfield House detention centre outside Oxford hanged himself in the early hours of this morning.

==========
NCADC News Service
==========


Another Death in Detention as UK detained Zimbabweans enter 6th day of Hunger Strike


Ranzan Kumluca a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Turkey was found hanging in his room at Campsfield Removal Centre in the early hours of this morning, attempts by staff to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. All detainees at the removal centre will refuse to take their midday meal today in protest at the unnecessary and untimely death. Detainees at the Centre say that Ranzan had been detained for about 6 months and had made three unsuccessful bail applications.

Are the Home Office in Denial
'No Dignity in life No dignity in Death', once again the Home Office press office will neither confirm or deny that another asylum seeker has died in detention. When Sergey Barnuyck and Tran Quang Tung died in detention last year the Home Office would not release their names or even confirm that anyone had died.



- Political and Public dissent at the continued deportations of Zimbabweans grows by the hour

Detained UK Zimbabweans have decided to extend their 'Hunger Strike' against detention and deportation indefinitely. Their decision to continue the huger strike has been because they feel that the Home Office are ignoring their pleas not to be deported and ignoring the growing 'Political and Public' dissent over the last six days against the continuing hard line stance of the Home Office.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


What the Papers Say!
The Liberal Democrats are writing to Home Secretary Charles Clarke calling for deportations to Zimbabwe to be put on hold.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4625073.stm


Anglican and Roman Catholic church leaders joined a call at the weekend for an immediate end to the deportations.
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1670787,00.html


These deportations must stop - Leader in The Independent 27/06/05
 http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=650019


Cabinet revolt over Mugabe refugees: Charles Clarke faces a Cabinet revolt over his refusal to halt forced deportations of asylum-seekers to Zimbabwe. While Jack Straw and other ministers condemn President Mugabe's violent crackdown, the Home Secretary is insisting that it is safe to send Zimbabwean dissidents back home.
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1668374,00.html


Richard Howitt, a Labour MEP who is vice-chairman of the European parliament's human rights committee, said: "I don't think we can have any real confidence that those returned will be safe."
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1669641,00.html


UNHCR no 'Forced returns to Zimbabwe' - Advice to UK government December 2004, still current.
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/newszine53/zim.html


Revealed: secret talks to oust Mugabe
British government diplomats have held secret talks in Zimbabwe aimed at persuading Robert Mugabe to hand over power and return his devastated nation to the Commonwealth, it was claimed last night.
 http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=704612005

posted by mouse

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech