Anti-deportation campaigns

Campaigns to allow particular individuals, families or groups of people to stay in the UK

Welcome to No 10, now please leave the country?

From the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC), Monday 11th December

Asylum seeker who was invited to Buckingham Palace, now invited to 10 Downing Street

"In recognition of services to the voluntary sector, The Prime Minister and Mrs Blair request the honour of the company of...

Justice for Ernesto

Ernesto Leal has won his right to stay in Britain – and the Home Office will not appeal against the decision. Ernesto came from Chile to Britain as a child in the 1970s, fleeing Pinochet's repression with the rest of his family. After living in Scotland for years, he now lives in Hackney. His first language is English, he no longer has family in Chile. But the government wanted to kick him out of the country. Why? Because he got in trouble with the law a few years back, and when the Tories and the tabloids began their hysteria about 'foreign criminals', Ernesto was a convenient pawn in a...

France : support Anas El Jazouli, morocco secular activist.

Anas El Jazouli, a secular activist from Morocco is facing the threat of deportation after the refusal of asylum by french administration. Anas is staying in France with his family as asylum seeker since 4 years. In Morocco, his life is under threat by islamists who edicted a fatwa against him. Anas has gained the nickname of “morocco Salman Rushdie” for his action in favour of secularism. French police administration refuse now to give him full asylum right and order to leave France as soon. Anas has started a hunger strike since 12 september 2006. His health is bad, Anas and his family with...

Don’t deport Iraqi refugees!

On 5 September the Campaign to Stop Deportations to Iraq held a successful lobby of the Home Office Headquarters in Marsham Street, London. The lobby was held to highlight how the government is stepping up it’s forcible removal of Iraqi refugees — so far all or most who have been deported are Iraqi Kurds. This the start of an EU wide deportation campaign. And at a time when Iraq, even the Kurdistan part of Iraq, is becoming less safe. The lobby presented a petition and letter to a Home Office representative. • More campaign details and information: www.csdiraq.com.

Let Samina Altaf and her children stay

I'm happy to carry out a request from this campaign to publicise their case. Below is an extract from a press release advertising a press conference that has now happened. This case is, however, still ongoing, and your support would be most appreciated.

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HOME OFFICE CONTRADICTS...

Ernesto Leal must stay!

Ernesto Leal came from Chile to Britain as a child in the 1970s, fleeing Pinochet's repression with the rest of his family. After living in Scotland for years, he now lives in Hackney. His first language is English, he now longer has family in Chile. Ernesto is British.

But the government wants to...

Hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers in Hull threatened with deportation

From the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR). Hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers in the city of Hull are being sacked from their jobs. Their employers have suddenly told them: "You are illegal in this country and you should contact the Home Office". These same Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers previously had permission to work and they worked for more than 3 or 4 years, and now they don't know what to do. The Home Office has asked them to go back to Iraq "voluntarily" when they have just settled in England. At least 7,000 Iraqi asylum seekers, many of whom have been settled in...

No deportations!

The Sukula family On Saturday 17 June a rally was held in Bolton to protest againt the threatened deportation of the Sukula family. The three sisters, two brothers and mother fled Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2001. The family were involved in an opposition group. They have been denied asylum in this country and are now threatened with “Section 9”, that is the removal of benefits because they have not taken “reasonable” steps to allow themselves to be “voluntarily” deported. That could mean the children will be taken into care. Is the DRC a safe place...

Elizabeth must stay!

Elizabeth, whose surname cannot be used for fear that her family will suffer, is a Ugandan lesbian who fled to the UK in 2004. One night, after being out with friends at a secret gay club, she was visited by people she believes were government agents, bundled into a car and taken to a so-called “Safe House” — unofficial prisons where torture is regularly practiced. Before her escape she was held for five months, during which repeatedly raped, whipped and beaten. Elizabeth’s claim to asylum, and her appeal, have been rejected because while the adjudicators accepts that homosexuals are...

No deportations to Iraq!

The British government still intends to deport Iraqi and Kurdish nationals to whom it has refused protection. Fifteen people were forcibly removed on 20 November 2005. One person has been allowed back into Britain as the Home Office admit he should not have been on the flight. All were known to be frightened about their future when they returned, but it has not been possible to monitor their fate systematically. The government estimates that it has removed approximately 1020 people in the 18 months to December 2005, either via International Organisation for Migration on so-called "voluntary"...

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