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UK Migration Newswire Archive

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Letters from Kurdish deportees

17-10-2006 01:48

These letters from a number of Iraqi-Kurdish asylum seeker who were forcibly deported on 5 September, 2006 (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/09/350214.html) were received by Dashty Jamal from the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees ( http://www.federasion.org). They were passed to the European Council Presidency on 11.10.2006 in European Parliament.

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Anti-racist/anti-deportation protest - 21 October

16-10-2006 23:50

PROTEST! 21ST OCTOBER!
Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest on Saturday 21 October from 12-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre

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Teresa Lau Manuel Must Stay in Leicester

15-10-2006 13:15

Teresa Lau Manuel
Teresa came to Leicester on 25 March 2004. She spoke Kikongo and Portuguese, and so went to Leicester College to learn English. She followed this with a Child Care course at Leicester College that she completed in July 2006. Her certificate says "to have achieved it required determination and skill, qualities which help you shape a valuable career". Teresa now faces removal from the UK on Friday 20th October 2006.

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GEO take over RSI Immigration Service

14-10-2006 16:54

Those of you who have been around long enough will know that R.S.I are escorts and have allegedly been using undue force against detainees. GEO is the private company that runs Campsfield detention centre.

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Congolese asylum seeker, removed to Kinshasa, imprisoned and beaten

14-10-2006 16:43

On 6 October, 2006, Mulai Mukendi, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was removed from the UK and taken to the country's capital Kinshasa, upon which she was subjected to imprisonment and beatings for several days.

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Refugees demonstrate at North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre

13-10-2006 17:38

On Friday 13th October members of Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) held a lively picket of North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre to protest against detention and deportation of asylum seekers and their children. Annie, a supporter of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! and part of TCAR reports:

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Transatlantic passenger data deal a capitulation to US demands

12-10-2006 08:03

Speaking today at the European Parliament in Brussels, German GUE/NGL MEP Sylvia Yvonne Kaufmann attacked the recent EU-US passenger data accord and called for greater protection for passengers' privacy.

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Evening Post helps Immigration Service harass East Midlands asylum-seekers

11-10-2006 10:15

Immigration yellow vests make Evening Post journalist feel like a big boy
An Nottingham Evening Post reporter joins the Immigration service to find illegal working at local car washes and writes a most despicable article (Evening Post, 10th October 2006, page 5), online at:
CRACKING DOWN ON THE CITY ILLEGAL WORKERS

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Glasgow - Dawn Raid Vans are Being Detained

11-10-2006 05:29

The Home Office Reporting Centre at Brand St in Glasgow (home of the Dawn Raid teams) isn't going to open on time this morning. Have a lie-in if you don't fancy work or signing-on today.

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Urgent - Kidnapping at Dallas, USA, Court! Information need!

10-10-2006 23:06

Kidnapping 1
At 3pm on Tuesday 10th September, a mother and her child where taken from Dallas Court Immigration Reporting Centre. Their details are unknown at the moment, as is their current location.

If anyone as any details please email  fightback_05@yahoo.com asap so people can prevent their deportation!

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Pic from No Borders demo

10-10-2006 11:40

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Lots of people and colourful banners and nice music.

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Protest at Communication House - Friday 6 Oct 2006

10-10-2006 10:56

On Friday 6 oct 2006 in the frame of the Transnational Day of Action for immigration, asylum and sans papiers' rights All African Women's Group, Global Women Strike and Payday Men's network organised a protest against deportation.

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NoBorders Banner Drop

09-10-2006 22:53

blowing in the wind
NoBorders action as part of the Birmingham protest against Migration Controls on Saturday 7th October 2006.

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Close down Dallas Court!, Fri 13 Oct 2006

09-10-2006 16:45

The next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford Quays, will be held on Friday 13 October at 12-2pm. People, including women, chidren and victims of rape and torture, are kidnapped daily at Dallas Court and taken to detention centres. Many who escape kidnap also report being racially abused and insulted regularly by racist staff at Dallas Court. NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) urges everyone to attend and to support and publicise these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government.

Nearest Tram 'Broadway'.

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London October 7th: International Day of Action on Migrant Rights

09-10-2006 15:37

Coming out of the shadows! - Migrants on the march for their rights in London

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7th October London - March for Migrants Rights

09-10-2006 06:52

Coming out of the shadows! - Migrants march for their rights in London

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October 7th in Moscow

08-10-2006 21:11

On the 7th of October we did the action against migration control in Moscow. We started on the one of the biggest Moscow streets – Garden ring – and directed our steps towards the Federal migration service that is a part of Ministery of Internal Affairs and in charge of the migration politics in Russia.

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October 7th: 'For freedom of movement and the right to stay'

08-10-2006 17:52

As part of the Transnational Day of Action for Migrants on Saturday October 7th, members of Birmingham’s Anti-Racist Campaign supported by Birmingham NoBorders, gathered in Victoria Square to lay wreaths to commemorate those asylum seekers who have died as a result of government immigration policies.

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Glasgow - "The Worse Reid Gets, the Stronger we Become"

08-10-2006 12:27

Several hundred people converged on Glasgow's George Square on Saturday for a march and Rally organised by Unity the Union of Asylum Seekers as part of the 3rd International Day of Action for Migrant Rights.

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Oct 6, 2006: Fourth occupation Rotterdam Detentionships

08-10-2006 00:54

Sign on the gate i front of the Detentionship...
In the morning of Friday, Oct 6, 2006, activists have again climbed on the detetionships and blockaded the entrances by lock-ons.
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