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From: "miriam hollis" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:57:30
To: David Fryer<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Save Blaise Kamba from unjust deportation andcertain torture today, CONTACT YOUR MP! MESSAGE 2
Can you please pass this information to forward to the Campaign.......
There should not be a scheduled removal following a non business day. (Weekends and bank holidays). If a removal is scheduled the immigration case worker should be asked to object and apply for a Judicial Review of the decision to remove.
Also, although the Campaign may be aware but this group may not, the Government in Kinshasha ( Democratic Republic of Congo) met with U K Gov representatives in January this year to sign a repatriation agreement of DRC citizens whose asylum applications in UK have failed. The joint agreement seeks to ' repatriate' or enforce the removal of ( and 2 figures. Have been quoted) 3000 or 4000 people from the UK. This is in contrast to the continuing battles and rapes (as a political act of ethnic conflict) that we are hearing from within the DRC. These enforced repatriations will largely not be on passenger flights as individuals or families. But on specially charted flights hired privately for the purpose of mass enforced deportation to DRC. Current information indicates that the flights are jointly sponsored by more than one European country and in the case of flights to DRC could involve picking up enforced passengers from France en route. We have already seen joint chartered flights of this type between UK and France with regard to Afghans. Also joint Anglo Irish flights this year (at least twice) of Nigerians and we ( in the anti deportation movement) suspect this is also happening with other nationalities. For the most part these flights will be filled with the easiest to detain ( in relation to DRC and Nigeria) women and children. More often than not the children have been born in the UK. In the case of Kurds to Iraq the flights are now fortnightly carrying sixty plus passengers in handcuffs. Handcuffed to at least two escorts each.
Chartered flights. Details are kept secret and the information is denied to the individual and the immigration case worker thereby frustrating attempts of appeal or judicial review. Enforced returnees on normal passenger flights are also handcuffed however their supporters have the small benefit of the flight details. There is a great deal happening within deportation that would lead all of us to question whether we still live in a democracy. The illusion is fast fading for me.
Miriam
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From: David Fryer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:09:11
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Save Blaise Kamba from unjust deportation and
certain torture today, CONTACT YOUR MP! MESSAGE 2
another from Jacqui
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From: jacqui lovell [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, 24 May, 2009 8:14:26
Subject: FW: Save Blaise Kamba from unjust deportation and certain torture today, CONTACT YOUR MP!
For all those people who have asked if there is anything they can do through their MP's, then YES there very much is!
There is an Early Day Motion with 43 MPs signed up and we only need another 5 to STOP the removals for all people from the DRC, so anyone who has contact with their MP please can you ask them to add their name to the list as a matter of urgency!
THERE ARE CURRENTLY ONLY 2 CONSERVATIVE MPS SIGNED UP WITH THE MAJORITY COMING FROM LABOUR, LIB DEMS AND INDEPENDENT PARTIES
See link below for details of the EDM
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37889&SESSION=899 <http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37889&SESSION=899>
This could literally mean the difference between life and death for a number of people across the UK.
21 people (including women and children) were returned last week and although Human Rights Watch are there watching what is happening as yet no-one is letting us know, so we cannot stop the removals unless the EDM gets carried or we get enough signatures to use as evidence that the British public is against such action by the Home Office!
It is no accident that the next return is planned for Tuesday as given the Bank Holiday it gives us little time to act and to save these people from certain torture or sadly their death!
PLEASE contact your MP and ask them to SIGN UP TO THE EDM as a matter of urgency!
AND DONT FORGET TO SIGN THE PETITION!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/blaisekamba/ <http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/blaisekamba/>
See below for Blaise's story....
Blaise and his sisters, Leitishia and Jeanine, now aged 16 and 19, fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2006.
Bliase was an active member of the MNCL (Mouvement National Congolais Lumumba). When he attended a demonstration in June 2005, Blaise was detained and imprisoned.
Blaise managed to escape from prison, from certain death and he and his sisters were helped to flee the country to the UK. There is no-one else to care for the girls, as they lost their father in 1995 and there had been no news from their mother since 2003.
They have been living in Thornaby and Stockton on Tees, where they attend the Riverside College. Leitisha is studying hair dressing and English and Jeanine, having done her GCSEs at Thornaby Community School, is studying child care.
They have been detained in Tinsley House since the 28th of April. Jeanine and Leitisha were wrongly advised in the detention centre to make their own applications for asylum. Jeanine, 16, was interviewed by Immigration officers before she had the opportunity to speak to a lawyer. This has resulted in the girls being released from detention but hours later their brother was issued with removal directions to Congo on Kenya Airways flight KQ 101 on Tuesday 26th May at 20.00 hours.
The girls are distraught, as is Blaise. He writes, "How would you feel when you have children who are brilliant at school and suddenly their future and dreams are stopped just like that. This suffering is very hard for me. I think I could not handle it any more!"
Even in the face of his own deportation Blaise's thoughts are still with his sisters, he is an inspiration to us all!
And thankyou for taking the time to read and act!
Jacqui
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