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Stop the Deportation of Children and Students - Report

Moonsquirrel | 20.11.2005 15:40 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | London

19th November 1005, London. Approximately 60 people turned out to protest against deportation of children and students.

Protest
Protest

Samba band
Samba band

Placard 1
Placard 1

Gathering in Hyde Park
Gathering in Hyde Park

Speech
Speech


At around 1pm a small number of people gathered in Whitehall, they were accompanied by cavalcade of police motor cyclists and a large number of police on foot. The protest headed off at about 1:30, it was good natured with a samba band and plenty of chanting. Despite the low turn out the protest did get lots of attention with the police stopping traffic in Whitehall, Pall Mall and Park Lane to allow the protest through. Plenty of leaflets were handed out to a generally receptive public. The march ended in Hyde Park with several speeches from those affected by the government's asylum policy and those campaigning against it.

In what feels like an ever increasing xenophobic nation and a government obsessed with deportation and barbaric immigration controls, the campaign for a world without borders is certainly going to be an uphill struggle.


Background:

The government has placed a general reservation to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, meaning children’s rights are less important than their immigration status. Some children have been “snatched” from school and taken to Removal Centres, characterised by hunger-strikes, self-harm, and suicide. The UK is the only European country to detain children indefinitely. From there, children are deported to dangerous countries like Angola, Somalia, or the Congo - countries devastated by years of civil war and where human rights are routinely abused. Some of the children were born in the UK and have never been to those countries.

Students have been refused enrolment, or thrown out of college half way through their course, made destitute, or detained.

source:  http://www.ncadc.org.uk/

Moonsquirrel

Additions

Bejayzus, I'd never make it as a mainstream journalist

20.11.2005 20:28

Placard 2
Placard 2

The protest didn't a actually take place 1,000 years ago as previously stated. It was in fact held in the year 2005.

Also an additional photo that I forgot.

Moonsquirrel


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