12-5pm: No More Deportations to DR Congo!
5.30pm: Defend the SOAS Nine
Against the "Ethnic Charter Flight" to Nigeria... from 12pm or 5.30 in solidarity with these earlier call-outs.
Marsham Street, Millbank, SW1 (nearest Tube Westminster)
*We say NO! to the British government’s racist treatment of Congolese
asylum seekers and refugees, sending them back to face imprisonment, torture and forced disappearance. No more detention! No more handcuffs!
No more beatings! No more forced deportations! No more charter flights!
March 1 July 2009: 12.00-17.00
Parliament Square to Downing Street
Contacts
International Congo Support Project
Liz Atherton, chair, founder and coordinator: 07931 524654 – after 7pm
Philippe Kamulete Colonel Nzubenzubesimanzanga Leviathan: 07983 95111
*Workers and students at SOAS have called an urgent protest at the Home Office to demand the release and right to stay for Marina and Rosa of the SOAS 9, detained during the savage raid on June 12th. They are facing imminent deportation.
http://freesoascleaners.blogspot.com/2009/06/protest-outside-home-office...
*The Stop Deportations Network, involved in the Defend the SOAS 9 campaign, is calling on people to join protests this Tuesday to also condemn the "Ethnic Charter Flight" to Nigeria that day. These mass deportations are becoming a monthly atrocity.
Hunger Strikers from Yarl's Wood have been booked on to this flight, including the Umoro family: Juliet and Steve and their two children. Steve had his tooth smashed and rips damaged by Serco when they attacked the hunger strikers. Both children are ill. They are desperate not to go.
We also know of another man from the Niger Delta region who is to be forcibly deported. No one should be sent to the Delta region at the moment, but this case may prove to be of wider political significance that it is unsafe to describe openly at the moment. The government seems to think that the logistical expediency of mass charter flights is a more important than legal process, and routinely denies the right of judicial review to those booked onto these mass flights.