Anti-deportation campaigns

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

Let Mehdi Kazemi stay!

Mehdi Kazemi is a 19 year old gay man being threatened with deportation to Iran. His case has hit the headlines because he would be in almost certain danger of arrest and execution if the government sent him back to his homeland. Furthermore, the threat hanging over him exposes the racism and homophobia of the immigration controls system. Mehdi originally came to London to study English in 2004, but in April 2006 he learnt from his uncle that his boyfriend back in Iran had been arrested by the authorities. Under torture he had been forced to reveal the names of his lovers, and was then...

Anti-war doesn’t mean pro-repression!

Respect Renewal MP George Galloway has been far from sympathetic to the case of Mehdi Kazemi, instead choosing to spew homophobic bile and defend the Iranian regime. Showing his complete contempt for human rights and democracy, he has levelled the ridiculous accusation that people campaigning against the deportation of Mehdi Kazemi are “the pink contingent of imperialism” — even though the protests are against our own government. The controversy started on 13 March on Channel 5’ s The Wright Stuff chat show, where Galloway said that the papers’ coverage of Mehdi’ s story amounted to...

Stop deporting Iraqi refugees

The first two weeks of March saw dozens of shootings, roadside bombs, car bombs and discoveries of mass graves in Iraq. Five years into the war, the country remains torn apart by sectarian violence, which marks its toll not only in bodies but also in destroyed basic infrastructure, power and supplies shortages and a grave lack of hospital beds. Yet on March 13 it was revealed that the Home Office now considers Iraq ‘safe’, and will therefore give 1,400 Iraqi asylum seekers an ultimatum – go back, or stay in Britain but with no benefits and no home. They have three weeks to make up their minds...

Industrial news roundup

Industrial News Roundup: RMT, NUJ, Unision, Immigration Controls Second trade union conference Campaigners are urging trade unionists to sponsor and attend the second “Trade union and Community Conference Against Immigration Controls” which will be held in London on Saturday 29 March 2008. In March 2007 No One is Illegal organised a similar conference in Liverpool. This was attended by over 100 trades unionists. The Finsbury Park Branch of the RMT has called for a second conference to take place in London which will be a “trade union and community conference”, to ensure that migrant and...

Feminists against Borders

Feminists Against Borders will hold their first meeting, “Moving gender”, as part of the Gatwick No Borders Camp, Friday 21 September, 10am-1pm, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon. The meeting will be an open discussion on the relationship between national borders, gender and sexuality. From their statement: “Every day of our lives we are confronted with rigid ideas of gender and sexuality and thus our 'appropriate' roles in society. Anyone who does not conform is seen as 'other' or 'strange' or even 'dangerous'. In a society that always attempts to mark someone as 'other' (by race...

Deportations to Iraq continue

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued the following appeal. The UK government is currently arresting and detaining Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers. The UK Government has forcibly deported 89 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers on four different occasions over the last three years. The first three forcible deportations were carried out by military aircraft from Brize Norton, a military airbase near Oxford. The last deportation was by a so-called humanitarian plane from London on 5 September 2007. The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees fears more deportations are planned back...

Home Office Deports Iraqi Asylum Seekers back to War and Cholera in Northern Iraq!

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued the following appeal. The UK government is currently arresting and detaining Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers. The UK Government has forcibly deported 89 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers on 4 different occasions over the last 3 years. The first 3 forcible deportations were carried out by military aircraft from Brize Norton, a military airbase near Oxford. The last deportation was by a so-called humanitarian plane from London on 5 September 2007. The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees however fears more deportations are planned back to...

Stop the deportation of Pegah Emambakhsh

URGENT ACTION - Pegah Emambakhsh solidarity and support campaign From Peter Tatchell and OutRage! Pegah is an Iranian lesbian asylum seeker who is facing deportation from the UK on 27 August 2007. She is at risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture, lashings and/or possible execution if she is returned to Tehran. A briefing on Pegah's case follows below. Please write or email asap the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and to Pegah's British constituency MP, Richard Caborn (see details below). Pegah Emambakhsh's Home Office reference number is: B1191057 This number must be quoted in any letter...

Stop deportations to the DRC!

On Thursday 23 August, the Home Office¹s policy of deporting 'failed' asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo will be challenged at a judicial review at the High Court ahead of a planned charter flight to Kinshasa on 30 August. A statement opposing deportations to Congo, launched by Flores Sukula, a Congolese student at Bolton Sixth Form College facing potential deportation, has attracted widespread support from organisations and individuals including Liberty, the Refugee Council, Refugee Action, the National Union of Journalists and Jeremy Corbyn MP. Protestors will also be...

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