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Tinsley blockaders charched with aggravated trespass
Seven anti-deportation campaigners who blockaded an immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport earlier this month today pleaded guilty to the charge of 'aggravated trespass' at Crawley Magistrates Court. Six of them locked and glued themselves to the gate of Tinsley House on 17th March in an attempt to prevent Iraqi refugees being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to northern Iraq later that day (see
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424608.html). All seven have been released on conditional discharge and ordered to pay the court fees. Two other protesters, who were also arrested on the action, have pleaded not guilty and are due in court again soon. [Full Story | 1 comment ]
Short video of Tinsley House blockade
This is a short video of the Tinsley House blockade on 17th March 2009. It only shows the first hour or so of the action as the other tapes, along with camera, were confiscated by the police when the person filming was arrested. This tape, which only had about 10 minutes of footage, was 'smuggled' out of the police cordon before it kicked off to get it to journalists who were stuck down the road. Some of the footage was used by the BBC South East in their South East Today report - of course, without crediting us or mentioning that they were not allowed to film the protest.
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Tinsley House blockade ends with arrests and deportees taken to airport
Nine people have been arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) following this morning's blockade of Tinsley House immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport. Six of the arrestees had locked and glued themselves to the prison's gate to prevent Iraqi refugees from being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, later today. All nine have been taken to Crawley police station. They are expected to be released on bail later tonight or remanded overnight and taken to court tomorrow morning. [Full Story | 1 addition ]
The economic third world war has begun long ago already?
Is Marx the first theoretician of globalization obsolete?[Full Story | 1 comment ]
French police attack on refugees affects Portsmouth children
Tear gas sprayed on refugees in a truck in France has ended up harming children in Portsmouth when they played on a new slide which had been in the truck that was sprayed with the tear gas.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
Flying people to torture and death
A Brighton family was forcibly deported to Algeria last week on an Air Algérie flight from Heathrow. The first attempt to deport them on a British Airways flight three days before had failed, allegedly because there was 'a problem with their tickets.' Both times campaigners from Brighton and London gathered at the airport and leafleted crew members and passengers to try and get them to protest on board, which may explain why the deportation was cancelled the first time. Earlier that week, about 50 Iraqi refugees refused asylum were not so lucky to have 'tickets with problems' or protesters leafleting at the airport. Instead, they were surreptitiously taken through the VIP entrance at Stansted airport and put on a special 'ethnic charter flight' operated by a Czech airline, which carried them to Erbil in northern Iraq. A few deportees were taken off the plane, just before it took off, after last-minute interventions by solicitors and MPs. One deportee was flown back to London after winning a High Court injunction.[Full Story | 3 comments ]
Souhalia family deported
see see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421945.html
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Souhalia Family to be deported 2pm Friday - Call for Solidarity
Assia Souhalia her husband Athmane nationals of Algeria and their UK born daughter Nouha, residents of Brighton were 'Snatched' from their home last week and are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRCsee
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421945.html
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Assia Souhalia - Deportation Cancelled after Campaigners Intrervene
This morning a group of campaigners from Brighton and London travelled to Heathrow to do what they could to prevent the deportation of the Souhalia family see - http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422246.html
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Take Action - Stop the deportation of the Souhalia Family
Assia and Athmane Souhalia, together with their two year old daughter Nouha, are scheduled to removed to Algeria on Tuesday 17th February on British Airways Flight BA895 from Terminal 5 Heathrow Airport @ 08.40 to Algiers see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421945.html
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Brighton Family to be Deported to Algeria - press release
Brighton Voices in Exile Press Release12th February 2009 - For Immediate Release
For more details call Brighton Voices In Exile on 01273 328598/07825536489 or email
bvie@hotmail.co.uk Photos of the family and interviews are available on request
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Asylum and the myth of sharing
Have you ever wondered why as children we’re taught the importance and value of sharing? I have and it seems somewhat misplaced; it’s not as if as adults we have any need for such a value.The much-lauded childhood principle of sharing runs contrary to those principles we practise as grown-ups. As adults we are scared about what the next man has, we envy his lot. We are scared about what sharing might do to our children’s futures. Those very children who think sharing is so important. So while as children we equate goodness with generosity, as adults we try very hard to undo this philosophy. Bizarrely this seems to work.
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New immigration prison to open at Gatwick this spring
The new immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport will not be opened until the spring, Corporate Watch has learned. The official opening had been scheduled for February this year but has been delayed for undisclosed reasons. The purpose-built high-security prison, named Brook House, is based on the 'successful' design of Colnbrook detention centre at Heathrow airport. The new detention centre will be run by Global Solution Ltd (GSL), which is now owned by G4S, and will hold up to 426 male and female detainees.
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Chagos Ethnic Cleansing; No Right to Return: Implementation of International Law
Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes against Humanity justified by UK Regime and House of Lords[Full Story | 2 comments ]
New short film from South Lebanon
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges"[Full Story ]
Solidarity week against repression in France at June, 9-16
Ivan, Bruno and Damien got arrested on January 19, 2008 on the way to the demonstration against the detention centre of Vincennes (near Paris). They were carrying home made smoke powder and bent nails (to slash tyres). At the police station, they refused the finger print identification and DNA taking. Ivan and Bruno are jailed, Damien is under judiciary control.
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