If you are liable to detention
and deportation - you must
. . . . .
Never Doubt
Latest newszine
Help wanted
for campaigns
Images of resistance
NCADC email list
NCADC Needs Financial Help!
Archives
Disclaimer |
NCADC news
archive
Newszine 11
July /August September 1998
|
402 years of immigration rules:In 1596, Queen Elizabeth
the I, issued a decree that "divers blackamoors (Africans) then
in the country, should be sent forth from the land"
Haslar Detention Prison: On Monday 20 April, a hunger strike
against conditions and length of stay. was defeated on 21 April by
the removal of ten detainees to Winchester Prison.Sir David Ramsbotham's
report on Campsfield which was in the hands of the Labour Government
at the time, states: . . "When detainees begin to behave in a
disruptive way the only available control option appears to be the
removal to prison . . . . .which is a grossly inappropriate and unsatisfactory
sanction . . . United Nations High Commission for Refugee guidelines
specifically state that asylum seekers should not be held with criminals.
. . . Exposing detainees to custody, alongside some elements of the
prison population, is not only a corrupting experience, but cannot
be justified on grounds of safety" . . .
Asylum
Seekers have been forced to abandon their homes, communities and
countries because they fear persecution or human rights abuse.Every
single refugee is the consequence of a government's failure to protect
human rights.Refugees are entitled to international protection, but
governments are increasingly ignoring their obligations towards them.As
a result, the international system to protect refugees is in crisis.
Each time it fails, a life is put at risk.
Persons
deported under enforcement action 1998
| Jan: 520 |
Feb: 505 |
Mar: 550 |
Persons refused and removed 1998
| Jan: 2,050 |
Feb: 1,765 |
Mar 1,955 |
|
|
