| End this injustice - Fourth attempt to remove Anselme Noumbiwa! |
Anselme Noumbiwa back in Tees Valley (Posted 01/09/09) End this injustice - Fifth attempt to remove Anselme Noumbiwa! (Posted 28/08/09) Anselme Noumbiwa, a Cameroon national and resident of Tees Valley, is currently detained in Brookhouse IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK. He has been given 'Open ended Removal Directions', served on Wednesday 26th August, that he will be removed, not sooner than 5 days from that date but not later than 15 days. We do not know who the carrier is as UKBA have suppressed the information and do not know the date/time as the Removal Directions were open ended but believe the removal is imminent. Online petition for Anselme Noumbiwa To: the Home Secretary We, the undersigned want to draw your attention to the injustice and dangers of returning Anselme Noumbiwa (Home Office Ref. N1126839) to Cameroon. Anselme fled Cameroon in 2006 because on the death of his father, the village Chief, he was expected to 'marry' his father's wives. He suffered brutal treatment at the hands of the village notables when he would not adhere to tribal traditions, preferring instead to identify himself with Christian ethics. His story was believed by the Home Office, but he was told that he could relocate within Cameroon and would be safe. This is not the case, as the influence of powerful members of his tribe reaches beyond the area where he lived. If he is sent back to Cameroon, he will be in mortal danger. We ask you to allow him to stay in the UK. Fourth attempt to remove Anselme Noumbiwa! [Flight cancelled] (Posted 30/04/09) Jackie Fearnley / jackie.fearnley@beevitalpropolis.com End this injustice - Fourth attempt to remove Anselme Noumbiwa! Anselme Noumbiwa, a Cameroon national and resident of Tees Valley, is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Friday 1st May on flight PVT002 @ 01:00 to Cameroon. We do not know who the carrier is as UKBA have suppressed the information. The third attempt to remove Anselme (Friday 24th October 2009) was foiled when Anselme put on an Air France flight at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport appealed to passengers to get him off the plane; the response was overwhelming. Passengers stood up and demanded Anselme be removed from the plane, the French airport police were brought onto the plane to try and persuade the passengers to sit down and let the flight proceed, they refused, so Anselme was taken off the plane and returned to the UK. Anselme Noumbiwa fled Cameroon in 2006 because he was at risk of punishment for not adhering to the tribal traditions of the *Bamileke people. As the son and heir to the tribal Chief, Anselme was expected to assume his father's role, which included 'marrying' his many wives. When his father died in May 2006, Anselme refused to become the new Chief because polygamy contravened his Christian beliefs. In an attempt to force Anselme to comply with tradition, the village elders subjected him to the most degrading and terrifying torture. USA: Human Rights Report: Cameroon 2008 Anselme has lived in Tees Valley since July 2006. He attends Sacred Heart RC Church, is active in the local community and was studying English at Stockton Riverside College. His many friends and supporters are outraged at the unjust and inhumane manner in which Home Office officials have treated Anselme's case. What you can do to help! Please send urgent E-mail/faxes immediately to Rt. Hon. Jacqui Smith, Secretary of State for the Home Office asking that Anselme Noumbiwa be granted protection in the UK. Please use the attached "model letter" (AnselmeNoumbiwaJS.doc) you can copy/amend/write your own version (if you do so, please remember to include the HO ref: N1126839). Fax: 020 8760 3132 Please let the campaign know of any emails/faxes sent: Inquiries/further information: End of Bulletin: Source for this Message: Anselme Noumbiwa / French passengers protest stops removal (Friday 24th October) However when Anselme was put on to an Air France flight at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and again appealed to passengers the response was overwhelming. Passengers stood up and demanded Anselme be removed from the plane, the French airport police were brought onto the plane to try and persuade the passengers to sit down and let the flight proceed, they refused, so Anselme was taken off the plane and returned to the UK. He is now in Colnbrook Short Term Holding and can be contacted on 020 8607 5200 Ex 678 or 079 1938 8365. Anselme alleges escorts again roughed him up. Anselme Noumbiwa - Back in Middlesbrough where he belongs "What better way could I have started the day than to receive a 'phone call from Anselme who was released from detention yesterday and is safe, relatively well (considering his experiences) and now staying in Middlesbrough! I have no doubt that the strength of public feeling and the protests to both the Minister and the airline have played a significant part in sustaining the profile of Anselme's case and highlighting the injustice and potential danger of the Home Office decision. Anselme is sitting in my office as I write this and passes on his heartfelt thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to sign a petition, make a 'phone call or lobby on his behalf. He was overwhelmed by the love, support and prayers not only of his friends, but from those who had never met him, but cared enough to become involved in the campaign. I wish you could see the smile on his face." Best wishes and thanks, Kath Sainsbury for Anselme Campaign Anselme Noumbiwa, still here, still fighting The escorts were five people, brought me near the flight, one hold my left hand, other on my right hand another one in front of me and two behind me. When we reach the flight's door I say to them I can return in the same country, I tried to hold the flight's door with my hand and they started to harm me, put me the handcuff hurt me with that, they carried me on to the plane and I tried to shout and say I'm not a criminal or robber, I'm asylum seeker why do you treat me like this. They hold my finger on the two hand and press out to break I cried. One airline staff man came and say we can't carry this man why did you treat him like that. They continued to harm me and the man of airline gone and came back with a lady who came and complain. Then the escorts took me off the plane and brought me back to Colnbrook." Contact : anselmechelsea@yahoo.fr End this injustice - stop the removal of Anselme Noumbiwa! Anselme Noumbiwa, a Cameroon national, is currently detained in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 14th July 2008 at 20:00hrs on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101 to Nairobi and onward to Douala, Cameroon. Anselme Noumbiwa fled Cameroon in 2006 because he was at risk of punishment for not adhering to the tribal traditions of the *Bamileke people. As the son and heir to the tribal Chief, Anselme was expected to assume his father's role, which included 'marrying' his many wives. When his father died in May 2006, Anselme refused to become the new Chief because polygamy contravened his Christian beliefs. In an attempt to force Anselme to comply with tradition, the village elders subjected him to the most degrading and terrifying torture. Anselme's application for asylum was refused and the Immigration Judge who heard his appeal rejected the account of his experiences despite compelling evidence in the form of a newspaper account of his ordeal in L'Effort Camerounais, the newspaper of the Catholic Bishop's Conference in Cameroon. Anselme has since substantiated his evidence by providing an official letter from the Editor of L'Effort testifying to the veracity of the article and the integrity of the newspaper. He has also produced a medico-legal report commissioned by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture documenting his trauma and a report on Bamileke traditions, which is consistent with his story of abuse. Anselme has lived in Tees Valley since July 2006. He attends Sacred Heart RC Church, is active in the local community and was studying English at Stockton Riverside College. His many friends and supporters are outraged at the unjust and inhumane manner in which Home Office officials have treated Anselme's case. Please take urgent action now Let Kenya Airways know that it is not acceptable to call themselves 'the pride of Africa' and participate in the removal of Asylum Seekers from the UK or anywhere in the world. Fax: 0178 488 8299 - from outside the UK + 44 1784 888 299 2) Please send urgent faxes immediately to Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne, Minister of State for Immigration, asking that Anselme Noumbiwa be granted protection in the UK. Please download "model letter" (AnselmeNoumbiwaLB.doc) you can copy/amend/write your own version (if you do so, please remember to include the HO ref. N1126839). Fax: 020 8760 3132 (00 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK) Please let the campaign know of any faxes sent: Anselme Noumbiwa Campaign Inquiries/further information: *The Bamileke (French Bamiléké) are a collection of Semi-Bantu (or Grassfields Bantu) ethnic groups most highly concentrated in the western highlands of Cameroon's West Province, west of the Noun River and southeast of the Bamboutos Mountains and in the Mungo region of the Littoral, Southwest, and Centre Provinces. The Bamileke divide themselves into over 100 individual groups, each under the rule of a chief or fon. Source for this page: |