Amanda & Thando 39th day of Hunger Strike
NCADC News Service | 15.12.2005 22:53 | Migration | Birmingham
On Tuesday in the House of Lords, Lord Avebury raised the issue of Amanda he said: "On Sunday I spoke on the telephone to Miss Amanda Sibiya, a Zimbabwean who has been in Yarl's Wood detention centre since 8 April, and on hunger strike in protest against her detention since the beginning of November. She has lost 10 kilograms and the doctor from the Medical Foundation who examined her last week recommended that she be transferred to hospital, but the authorities declined to do that. A system that holds people in custody for eight months and ignores medical advice to release them is manifestly in need of regular judicial oversight, and we hope that if the Government are not prepared to implement Part 3 of the 1999 Act, they will come up with equivalent safeguards for vulnerable asylum seekers being held in detention indefinitely."
The two women have now been separated into different wards. Thando has a bail hearing in Birmingham on Monday the 19th December; she would appreciate some support at the bail hearing.
Amanda wants to make a bail application but needs an accommodation address to present to the court. She is aged 19 and needs to be in a supportive and all female environment for a while; one not to far from other Zimbabwean communities would be good. If anyone in London, Birmingham, Leicester, or Manchester can help with accommodation please contact NCADC.
In other news:
NCADC have received a message saying, Ozgur Sahin, from Turkey is on the 25th day of a 'Hunger strike' in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. Speaks very little English, so if any recipient of this message who can speak Turkish, could they ring Ozgur and get details and get back to NCADC. You can ring Ozgur direct, Harmondsworth IRC 020 8283 3850 Extension 1753
Wigan Labour Council members veto motion to support asylum seekers
"Angry scenes erupted and cries of "shame" rang out from the public gallery at Wigan Council's Extraordinary Council Meeting as two motions proposed in support of two asylum seeking families were voted down. The parish priest shouted "shame" as the vote result was declared.
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine65/shame%20in%20wigan.htm
Amanda wants to make a bail application but needs an accommodation address to present to the court. She is aged 19 and needs to be in a supportive and all female environment for a while; one not to far from other Zimbabwean communities would be good. If anyone in London, Birmingham, Leicester, or Manchester can help with accommodation please contact NCADC.
In other news:
NCADC have received a message saying, Ozgur Sahin, from Turkey is on the 25th day of a 'Hunger strike' in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre. Speaks very little English, so if any recipient of this message who can speak Turkish, could they ring Ozgur and get details and get back to NCADC. You can ring Ozgur direct, Harmondsworth IRC 020 8283 3850 Extension 1753
Wigan Labour Council members veto motion to support asylum seekers
"Angry scenes erupted and cries of "shame" rang out from the public gallery at Wigan Council's Extraordinary Council Meeting as two motions proposed in support of two asylum seeking families were voted down. The parish priest shouted "shame" as the vote result was declared.
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine65/shame%20in%20wigan.htm
NCADC News Service
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