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.

Jane Mary Mutetsi belongs to Nottingham

John O | 17.12.2007 13:52 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Jane Mary Mutetsi is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC with removal directions set for Tuesday 18th December on British Airways Flight BA063 leaving Heathrow @ 21:05 for Entebbe/Uganda.

Jane Mary (a national of Rwanda) fled for her life from Uganda to the UK, she arrived on 5th April 2002 and claimed asylum on 11 April. She had to leave behind her four daughters to be looked after by a friend.

In Uganda, Jane Mary and her husband David built up a food import and export business in their village Omungyenya in west Uganda. But problems started in 2000 when they became involved with a rebel group the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) opposed to the Ugandan government by supporting them with food and money. In January 2002 Ugandan military forces raided their factory and premises and her husband was detained for three days before being released.

The soldiers returned on 25th March 2002 severely beat her husband locked him in the boot of a car and took him away. (This was the last Jane Mary saw or heard of her husband until 2004 when she received a letter from her husbands friend saying his body had been found in DR Congo.)

Jane Mary was also beaten, locked in the bathroom and subsequently brutally gang raped by three soldiers. The beating was so bad she lost the sight of one eye had several of her teeth broken and lost her left ovary. At the time a friendly grounds man helped Jane Mary escape from the house, having to put her in wheelbarrow, as she was unable to walk. When she was well enough to walk, a fiend helped her to flee to Kampala; from there she made her way to the UK.

U.S.A: Country Report Human Rights Practices - Uganda 2006
The government's human rights record remained poor. Serious problems remained, including: unlawful killings by security forces; disappearances; security forces use of torture and abuse of suspects; vigilante justice; harsh prison conditions; official impunity; arbitrary arrest; incommunicado and lengthy pretrial detention; restrictions on the right to a fair trial and on freedoms of speech, the press, and association; limited freedom of religion; abuse of internally displaced persons (IDPs); restrictions on opposition parties; electoral violence and irregularities; government corruption; violence and discrimination against women; female genital mutilation (FGM); violence and abuse of children, particularly sexual abuse; trafficking in persons; violence and discrimination against persons with disabilities; forced labor, including by children; and child labor.

Jane Mary has become an active and committed member of St. Stephen's, Church of England congregation in Nottingham, has completed a number of child care and child protection courses and, unable to work, volunteers on a regular basis at the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum undertaking whatever tasks are needed. She is also an active member of the Women's Group at the Forum helping to organise weekly activities and occasional outings like to the seaside in the summer and children's parties.

Jane Mary has a well-founded fear of being returned to Uganda as she has proof, held by her solicitor, that the Ugandan government is still actively looking for her, an arrest warrant for Jane Mary is extant.

Please help Jane Mary Mutetsi to remain in the UK.

What you can do to help:
All day to day Monday and all day tomorrow Tuesday

1) Fax Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer British Airways and urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Jane Mary Mutetsi - attached model fax Jane Mary MutetsiBA.doc (you can copy/amend/write your own version. Please include all the details. Forced Removal of Jane Mary Mutetsi, on British Airways Flight BA063 leaving Heathrow @ 21:05 for Entebbe/Uganda on Tuesday 18th December.

Fax: 020 8759 4314 - from outside the UK + 44 20 8759 4314


2) Send urgent faxes immediately to Rt. Hon. Jacqui Smith, Secretary of State for the Home Office asking that Jane Mary Mutetsi be granted protection in the UK. Please use the attached model letter JaneMaryMutetsiJS.doc you can copy/amend/write your own version (if you do so, please remember to include the HO ref M1146233).

Fax: 020 7035 3262 (00 44 20 7035 3262 if you are faxing from outside UK)

Please notify the campaign of any faxes sent to Jacqui Smith or BA

Friends of Jane Mary Mutetsi
C/o Konnie Lloyd
26, Marlborough Rd
Beeston
Nottingham NG9 2HG
 konnie2006@talktalk.net

Thank you for your support.

End of Bulletin:

Source for this Message:
Friends of Jane Mary Mutetsi

John O
- e-mail: JohnO@ncadc.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.ncadc.org.uk

Comments

Display the following comment

  1. She's back with us now — Mary Jane Supporter
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