At 7.00 pm on Monday 24th December, an hour and forty five minutes before the plane was to take Gabriel out of the UK. His lawyers obtained an injunction stopping, Gabriel's deportation to allow time for an application for a judicial review of his case to be lodged by Friday 28th December at 4pm.

Campaigning had been going on from early that morning and throughout the day. One person managing to get through to 10 Downing Street (didn’t get any joy, Tony wasn’t in). Undaunted he then complained to Airport police at Heathrow, about Gabriel's imminent removal, who contacted immigration and logged the complaint.

Media coverage on the day, was wide, front page of The Independent, BBC Radio 4, various London radio chat shows.

Barbed Wire Britain, who organised a cyber action throughout the day, said the response to their fax campaign was more than positive and would like to thank all who contributed

By 6.00pm the same evening, a small group of Gabriel's supporters, were at Heathrow Airport handing out leaflets to passengers who were booked on the same flight.

Staff at 'Bail for Immigration Detainees', had worked tirelessly throughout the day, up till the injunction was granted, keeping people informed of developments and assisting Gabriel's solicitors.

Dialogue between Gabriel's solicitors and the Home Office, had carried on all day with the Home Office refusing to budge on the removal. In the end the solicitor's were forced to apply for an injunction, which was granted.

Mondays activity was the accumulation of five days of frantic activity. On Thursday 20th December, Gabriel had gone to Hatton Cross, to hear the result of his asylum appeal. It was negative and he was arrested there and then and taken to Harmondsworth Detention Centre, pending removal from the UK. Detention was not new to Gabriel as he had been held in Wandsworth, Rochester and Haslar prisons and had spent 2 months in the old Harmondsworth detention centre.

When he was an immigration detainee, Gabriel was the most fearless, outspoken and meticulous and devastating critic of detention policy. See his letters from prison to those responsible for this injustice-letters you can read on the website www.closecampsfield.org.uk

Since his release in February last year, Gabriel had worked hard with Bail for Immigration Detainees, Barbed Wire Britain, the Yarl's Wood anti detention campaign. He travelled to and spoke at demonstrations outside, detention centres

His efforts have been praised in the Lords by the former cabinet minister Baroness Williams of Crosby, who said: "If there ever was an example of the kind of person for whom most of us would use the term genuine asylum-seeker, Mr Nkwelle falls into that category."

In December Gabriel and colleagues from the charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) won this year's Liberty/Justice human rights award.

Gabriel Nkwelle is from Cameroon where he was tortured for his political activity and faces the same if deported back. On Monday the 24th, in a statement to the media, he said, "I left my country for a safe country because of persecution. The death sentence has been abolished by the Cameroon constitution, but I think I will have several years in prison there because of my political activity. It is obvious I will be ill-treated if returned there."