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UK Migration Newswire Archive

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Close Campsfield!

18-11-2006 22:30

13 years too long.

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Jackie B. belongs in South Wales

17-11-2006 13:31

Jackie B. (not real name) and her child M
This young woman is a torture and rape victim, who was accepted by the Immigration Appellate Authority as a 'believable witness'. However her appeal was refused in 2005 on the grounds that even though she was suspected of being an LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) member and a torture and rape victim, she would not be in danger of persecution if she was returned to another part of Uganda, such as Kampala.

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Australias "Guantanamo" on remote Xmas Island

17-11-2006 05:31

"Guantanamo" on remote Xmas Island
A new maximum security immigration detention complex under construction on Christmas Island, has been dubbed "Australia's Guantanamo Bay". Australia's new remote offshore detention centre will have cameras in bedrooms, electric fences and electronically controlled doors - to force centre-wide lock-downs. The level of security and surveillance, greater than at any existing detention centre, makes parts of the complex comparable to a maximum security prison.

The 1200 bed centre, is said to cost more than $300million...

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CALL FOR ACTION: MIGRANT WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE

14-11-2006 15:38

HELP REQUIRED FOR GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ISS

This is the big push forward to demand Justice for Cleaners: an international campaign for the right of cleaners to organise within ISS - one of the worlds biggest multinational Cleaning Companies.

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DEPORTATION OF LESIBAN TO PERSECUTION

13-11-2006 23:50

Racist Home Office deports lesiban to Uganda, know for its 'well documented record of persecuting' its gay and lesiban community using legislation, banning same sex relationships, inherited from british colonial rule.

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READ ALL ABOUT IT – UK-Portuguese newspaper launched in Thetford, Norfolk

13-11-2006 09:16

Thetford based charity launches the first Portuguese newspaper to be fully edited and produced in the UK, hoping to reach the 500,000+ Portuguese nationals in the UK. Distributing in 600 places, mainly focussing on East Anglia and London. From an idea by META, a Keystone Equalities project.

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Indymedia-film about Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

13-11-2006 00:12

These days a new indymedia-film concerning the situation of palestinian refugees in Lebanon was released.

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Last ditch attempt to stop deportation of young lesbian

12-11-2006 00:20

A last ditch attempt to stop Faridah Kenyini being deported is being organised by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR). We are asking people to take phone/fax action and if you live in the Heathrow area, to leaflet at the airport on Monday afternoon.

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Asylum Seekers - The long walk

09-11-2006 14:32

Destitute asylum seekers in Nottingham now have to travel to Loughborough to report -under threat of arrest if they don't.

Would you support a campaign to highlight (and hopefully overturn) this policy?

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Outrage as Home Office deport 7yr old despite knowing her mother was in the UK

08-11-2006 17:10

Refugee support groups today expressed outrage at the Home Office forcibly returning a seven year old girl to Kenya despite being repeatedly informed by an MP, officers from Strathclyde Police and lawyers, that her mother was living in the UK.

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Viva La Chance!

07-11-2006 12:24

The solution to the problem cannot be curfews and tear gas.. Profit and power are set above social peace. Who is really responsible when the villa surrounded by barbed wire is charred one morning?

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They have biometrics in Poland already...!

07-11-2006 02:22

I just visited Poland and they have biometrics already
(I did not manage to get a photo of a one)

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Defend Halima and 6-month-old Bailey Jr. - Monday 13 Nov, 9am

07-11-2006 00:46

Defend Halima and Bailey Jr!
There is to be a demonstration and protest outside the offices of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on Monday 13 November, from 9.00 am, in Piccadilly Exchange, Manchester, near Mosley Street Tram stop, Piccadilly Plaza. The demo is in support of Halima Aboubacar and 6-month-old Bailey Jr. who face a deportation appeal hearing. If they lose, a date for deportation will be set and face deportation to the persecution Halima fled. Bailey Jr. also faces deportation to a country he’s never been to before. Come and support Halima and Bailey Jr. No to deportations! Stop deporting children and babies! Defend all asylum seekers!

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NOISE DEMO! Friday 10th November! Dallas Court!

06-11-2006 23:06

CLOSE DOWN DALLAS COURT
The next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford Quays, will be held on Friday 10 November at 12-2pm. People are kidnapped daily at Dallas Court and taken to detention centres, and racially abused and insulted by racist staff. All are urged to attend and support these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government.

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Detainee Support Training Day

05-11-2006 14:37

No Borders London Detainee Support Group are holding a training day on Saturday 11th November @ LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, 12noon - 5pm.

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Two men murdered in Sri Lanka after they have been deported from UK

03-11-2006 16:38

Deportations to Sri Lanka to continue, according to Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister.

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CALL OUT ON THE 4TH OF NOVEMBER: STOP FASCISM IN RUSSIA!!!

03-11-2006 14:54

fascist pogroms and masacra could happen tomorrow in Russian cities, we need international solidarity!!!!

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United Kingdom:Failure in immigration policy?

03-11-2006 12:30

Democracy and Human Rights

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Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

02-11-2006 16:17

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston

02-11-2006 14:01

Houston USA: Justice for Janitors campaign needs your active support NOW.

Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston, the 4th most important city in the US - and Bush territory.
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