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Flight 101 2008-07-20 17:54:05 Jean Pierre Gueutchue’s removal flight at 8pm today (Monday 21st July) is on the notorious flight KQ101. This Kenya Airways flight has been charted by the Home Office to forcibly deport ‘failed’ asylum seekers to Nairobi, from where they are flown all over Africa and handed over to the local authorities.
In October 2007 the Independent newspaper reported
The echo of George Read more:Flight
Jean Pierre Gueutchue Must Stay 2008-07-15 17:16:43 Jean Pierre
Gueutchue is currently detained at Campsfield House IRC and is due to be forcibly removed on July 21st at 8pm on Kenyan Airways Flight 101.
Jean Pierre fled Cameroon and arrived in the UK in 2003 where he made a claim for asylum.
In Cameroon he was imprisoned and tortured for his political activity with [...]
Against ID cards, for migrants, for everyone! 2008-07-12 11:15:21 Last night there was a NO2ID benefit gig in Cardiff, organised by the local group, a few members of No Borders South Wales attended, and were well entertained by the performers; Lou Noble, Cosmo, Missdalogik, The Fix Up, New State Radio and Sicknote.
We used the opportunity of the gig to give out copies of our [...] Read more:everyone
, migrants
Compassionate Virgin? 2008-07-10 11:04:30 The second failed attempt by the Home Office to deport Kemi, Taiwo and Yasim on tuesday gained some press attention. However the somewhat suspect claim by Virgin
Nigeria Airlines’ Director of Corporate Communications Larry Agose (pictured) has taken centre stage for foiling the forced removal.
Larry said that:
We were approached to carry Kemi Ayinde who is billed [...]
Home Office in Cardiff Picketed! 2008-07-09 13:33:51 A hardy collection of waterproofed campaigners from No Borders South Wales picketed the government’s ‘UK Borders Agency’ on Newport Road in Cardiff
. This unassuming grey building is the heart of the UK’s immigration policy in South Wales, but it’s boring bureaucratic façade hides a truly barbaric regime.
This is the place where snatch squads leave at [...] Read more:Home Office
Virgin on dishonesty: airline’s claims on ‘removal flights’ 2008-07-09 04:41:48 The frantic replies being fired off by Virgin
Nigeria to the many supporters of Kemi Ayinde contained what looks like a particularly strong claim. Stella Allen, a Customer Relations Executive at the company stated:
It is pertinent to mention that we do not tolerate the inhumane treatment of any person onboard any of our flights
as [...] Read more:claims
Picket The Home Office in Cardiff Tomorrow! 2008-07-08 14:33:15 The next regular No Borders picket of the Home Office
’s ‘UK Borders Agency’ in Cardiff
will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 9th July at 12 noon at General Buildings, 31-33 Newport Road (map).
These are the offices where people made the decision to deport Kemi Ayinde, Ama Sumani, and so many others, where the snatch squads leave [...]
Virgin U-Turn on Kemi Deportation! 2008-07-08 11:51:07 As the fantasitic news was revealed that Asylum seeker Kemi Ayinde and her family were not deported today, reports also began trickling out to her supporters of Virgin
Nigeria’s distinctly strange about-face on the matter.
At the end of last week, and until late yesterday, Virgin Nigeria’s PR department were working overtime e-mailing Kemi’s supporters assuring [...]
Removal of Kemi and Family Cancelled!! 2008-07-08 10:17:47 The removal of Kemi, Taiwo and Yasim was cancelled for today. The family were due to be removed on this morning at 10.15am on Virgin Nigeria flight VK292 from Gatwick North Terminal.
They are now in Yarl’s Wood detention prison, and their legal team has started the process of setting up a High Court judicial review. [...] Read more:Cancelled
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Kemi, Taiwo and Yasim update 2008-07-06 18:42:31 There is now a campaign page for sanctuary for Kemi, Taiwo and Yasim all campaign updates will appear on this page, please forward the link to anyone who would be willing to support the family.
Since No Borders South Wales launched the campaign to keep Kemi, Taiwo and Yasim safe in Cardiff last week, there has been considerable media interest in the case. The [...]
Curry & Pickets 2008-07-29 18:13:51 Tuesday evening friends and supporters of Babi Badalov got together for a curry and a chat about how the campaign is going. The appeal against the rejection of Babi’s asylum application was recently dismissed. This means he is in a state of legal limbo and may be subject to detention or deportation. However Babi’s solicitor [...] Read more:Curry
Financial appeal for Jean Pierre Gueutchue 2008-07-25 06:54:52 Whilst Jean Pierre
languishes in Campsfield IRC in Oxfordshire, a volunteer from Asylum Welcome, a charity based in Oxford which helps asylum seekers, refugees and detainees, has a plan of action to stop Jean Pierre disappearing into the prison system in Cameroon, should he be deported.
As in many other countries, on arrival back to Cameroon, deportees [...] Read more:Financial
Jean Pierre didn’t fly yesterday! 2008-07-22 11:44:10 Despite the Home Office’s desire to deport Jean Pierre
, on Kenya Airways’ notorious flight KQ101, Jean Pierre didn’t fly yesterday. We’re still not sure what caused the deportation to be cancelled. Appeals to Kenya Airlines to refuse to carry him appeared to fall on deaf ears. Likewise the Home Office, though they actually gave a [...]
Picket of the UK Border Agency offices, Cardiff 2008-08-20 18:13:56 Activists from No Border
s South Wales and No Borders Bristol demonstrated outside the UK Border Agency’s regional office for Wales and South West in Cardiff
today in protest against the UK’s racist and repressive migration controls.
Despite some rather petty territorial behaviour from the Border Agency staff (who removed a banner that was attached to ‘their’ railings)
Protest against the mistreatment of asylum seekers 2008-08-16 19:33:01 This Wednesday 20th August at 12 noon, No Borders South Wales will be holding one of our regular pickets outside the UK Border Agency offices on Newport Road, Cardiff. (map)
These are the offices where people made the decision to deport Ama Sumani to her death, who tried to deport Kemi and Taiwo and their baby, who has put [...] Read more:against
, Protest
, seekers
No Border Camps 2008 2008-08-15 14:26:42 There isn’t a No Border
Camp planned in the UK this year, as there was last year near Gatwick. There are however three camps planned this August and September across mainland Europe. No Border Camps act as a focal point of resistance to border regimes, and are also an opportunity for communication between different section [...]
Immigration - the case for free movement 2008-08-14 03:57:42 Cardiff Radical Socialist Forum is an arena for discussion amongst left wing people in the Cardiff area. Taking place once a month upstairs at the Model Inn, Quay Street, Cardiff (map), each forum has tackled a different subject. The next forum on Wednesday 3rd September, 7.30pm, will be about immigration.
No Borders South Wales will be giving a presentation on the case for [...] Read more:movement
New Report on Immigration in South Wales 2008-08-10 14:07:10 Immigration and inclusion in SouthWales
by Terry Threadgold, Sadie Clifford, Abdi Arwo, Vanessa Powell, Zahera Harb, Xinyi Jiang and John Jewell has recently been published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Well worth a read; it makes important points about how integration is much smoother for migrants who are allowed to work and points out [...]
Kemi Ayinde, Taiwo Salami and baby Yasim Denied Sanctuary 2008-08-07 18:40:36 Pregnant mother Kemi Ayinde and family have been told this week that their application for a Judicial Review of their asylum claim has been refused. They are liable to be detained and deported at any time.
The family returned to Cardiff three weeks ago after being detained in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire, after [...] Read more:Sanctuary
Slave labour at detention prison 2008-09-10 20:40:23 Migrants imprisoned at Campsfield House detention prison are being paid slave wages it has been discovered.
GEO, the multinational corporation that runs Campsfield under contract from the Home Office, not content with making huge sums of taxpayers money to imprison people whose only crime is to have come to the UK in search of a better [...] Read more:Slave
‘Border Force’ - Propaganda TV 2008-09-08 06:04:02 Tomorrow night at 9.00pm the latest ‘fly-on-the-wall’ reality TV show following around law enforcement agencies will air on the subscribtion channel Sky One. Controversially this eight-part series will be funded by £400,000 of taxpayers’ money. “BorderForce
” follows the activities of UK Border Agency enforcement teams at Heathrow, Dover and Calais.
This ” Read more:Propaganda
Keep Babi safe in Cardiff campaign hits the streets on day of Cardiff Pride 2008-09-06 14:15:36 Members of the ‘Keep Babi Safe in Cardiff
‘ Campaign – made up of friends and supporters of Babi – held a demonstration in Cardiff city centre today. The event aimed to draw attention to Babi’s situation with respect to his application for asylum, and raise awareness of the persecution that Babi has had to endure [...] Read more:Pride
, streets
Newsletter gets in a Newspaper! 2008-09-03 07:18:39 The recently produced first issue of the No Borders South Wales Newsletter, made the news in it’s own right yesterday when Media Wales published an article under the headline: ‘Asylum campaigners launch newsletter‘ then followed it up with a a link to this very website! Three cheers for David James of South Wales Echo, a fantastic bit of free publicity!
ASYLUM campaigners Read more:Newspaper
Against the Labour Party conference 2008-08-31 16:14:21 Between 20th -25th September the LabourParty
will be holding their annual national conference
in Manchester. To coincide with this there will be a demo organised by Stop the War and a counter conference organised by The Convention of the Left. Due to the way in which the UK government has overseen an unprecedented increase in social control, No Borders Manchester will be hosting [...]
Worried About ID cards? 2008-08-30 11:30:48 Then you should be concerned about the repression of migrants by government and corporate immigration ‘services’. ID cards have already been tested on migrants seeking asylum and will be used next on other ‘foreigners’.
The Application Registration Card has to be carried by everyone seeking asylum for their regular reporting and to obtain National Asylum Support [...]
Chief Inspector of Prisons criticises two Immigration Removal Centres 2008-08-27 21:39:27 “an immigration removal centre can never be a suitable place for children”
Anne Owers, HM ChiefInspector
of Prisons.
Two recent reports on full announced inspections of two privately run detention prisons provide extremely damning evidence of the treatment of asylum applicants incarcerated within them. The report on Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal
Centre and report on [...]
No Borders South Wales Newsletter 2008-08-27 17:31:40 In order to further spread information about our activities and upcoming events we’ve produced our first newsletter. In the past we’ve contributed articles to the SouthWales
Anarchists newsletter Gagged!, (here’s all our stories) but as an issue hasn’t appeared in a little while, we decided to produce our own.
It’s only a double sided [...] Read more:Borders
Benefit weekend of Punk, Ska and Folk 2008-08-24 20:11:58 Mark the first weekend of October in your diary for two days of punk, ska and folk at TJs, Newport. Along with them good people at Blind Destruction we’ll be holding No Border Fest, and all profits raised will go to No Borders South Wales.
It all kicks off on friday at 7pm when we’ve got crusty [...]
No One Is Illegal at socialist forum 2008-08-24 07:19:12 At the Cardiff Radical Socialist Forum on Wednesday 3rd September No Borders South Wales will be joined by two members of No One Is Illegal UK in giving a presentation on the socialist response to immigration controls, the concept and arguments for Free Migration and resistance to the UK Border regime.
The No One Is Illegal [...]
Anti-ID cards demo in Newport this Saturday 2008-09-30 04:25:10 The first UK ID cards have been unveiled, and come into force from 25th November. The card will hold the holder’s photograph, name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status and an electronic chip with biometric details, including fingerprints and digital facial image. All indefinitely held on the UK Identity and Passport Service database.
Initially the ID cards [...] Read more:Newport
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