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UK No Border Camp 2007 Newswire Archive

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Charly and Kiefer face anoather removal tomorrow

13-02-2008 11:33

Charly Julienne Mbongue Ndongo and her 4 month old baby, Kiefer Nkana Moudiki (born in England) from Leeds are currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre. They have survived previous removal attempts to Cameroon. They face another removal attempt tomorrow , Thursday 14th February 2008 on Brussels Airlines flight SN2050 at 06:30 from Birmingham Airport to Brussels and onwards on flight SN351 to Douala, Cameroon.

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Deportatons to DRC have resumed!

12-02-2008 10:50

A week ago the appeal submitted
by the legal team responsible for the BK case on the
DRC was refused at the first stage. They are now preparing papers to take the appeal directly to the Court of Appeal. In the meantime, the Home Office have seized the opportunity to make up for lost time by detaining people going to sign and by
issuing them and people already in detention with removal directions.

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A migrant broke his neck in a desperate bid to avoid being deported.

12-02-2008 10:39

The 34-year-old African is understood to have repeatedly hit his head against a wall while he was being held in a cell at Tinsley House immigration removal centre.

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successful blockade of Portishead Immigration Centre

12-02-2008 06:14

Blockade of Border & Immigration Agency depot steps up pressure to end
dawn snatches of families from their homes in the Bristol area

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Fortress Europe - January 2008

08-02-2008 21:27

ROME - At least 22 migrants have died at the gates of Eu during the month of January 2008 in Spain, Western Sahara, Algeria, Greece, Italy and Turkey. A sharp decline compared to the 243 victims surveyed in December. But it is just an apparent truce. Migrants detention camps in France are in revolt, and the same happens in Greece, Cyprus and Italy.

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invite to No Borders UK gathering

07-02-2008 20:27

NO BORDERS UK GATHERING

When:Saturday February 16th - Sunday February 17th
Where: MERCI, 21 Beswick Street, Manchester M40

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Another attempt to remove Christopher and Calvin

06-02-2008 19:24

Chris and Calvin George are two brothers of a Catholic family which fled from Pakistan to escape death threats and religious persecution. They have been living in Swansea. They are once again threatened with deportation.

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Charly: urgent help needed. Perparim shall stay!

06-02-2008 18:25


Charly from Leeds and her 4 month old baby to be deported to Cameroon tomorrow Thursday 7th February.

Peparim and family grated status.

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Shift #2 - Heathrow or Gatwick: what camp are you in?

17-01-2008 16:45

The second issue of Shift Magazine has just been published. It compares the politics of climate camp and no borders camp, includes an interview with the spacehijackers, and has a review of the 8 Dec. Climate March. We have posted the editorial below:

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Immigrants dead at the frontiers of Europe

11-01-2008 20:35

According to the following press review at leat 11,767 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. Among them 4,225 were missing in the sea. 8,125 migrants died in the Mediterranean sea, and through the Atlantic Ocean towards Spain, and 1.579 lost their life trying to cross Sahara desert in order to reach Europe [read more...] [1988-2007 press review]

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Around the Campaigns Friday 11th January 2008

11-01-2008 17:09

Jamaican woman and three children subjected to horrifying removal attempt
Maud Lennard removed on 8th attempt

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Around the Campaigns Friday 4th January 2008

04-01-2008 20:24

There was no let up by the Home Office over the 'Festive Season and New Year' to dispense misery to those 'Sans Papiers' in the UK; families were cruelly torn apart and families/individuals uprooted from their communities.

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Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe

31-12-2007 13:17

There are now 224 detention camps scattered across the European Union; altogether they can house more than 30,000 people - asylum-seekers and 'illegal' immigrants awaiting deportation - who are often held in administrative detention for as long as 18 months. In a number of EU countries, there is no limit on detention length.





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Falode and Adefowoju families belong to Belfast

19-12-2007 17:59

Ronke Falode and Comfort Adefowoju and their young families belong to Belfast

Friends, church members and concerned citizens gathered at Stormont, in Belfast today Wednesday 19th December 2007 to protest the detention and planned removal of two Nigerian families on the eve of Christmas.

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No Borders 'Dawn Raid' action also in Manchester

18-12-2007 11:20

This press release was send to the local media this morning...

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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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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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