aaaAhmed Ibrahim Bashari - Stop his Removal to Sudan

aaaAhmed is facing removal. He is from Sudan; an ethnic Black African whose people are suffering unspeakable persecution, if not genocide, at the hands of Sudanese militias, believed to have the backing of the Sudan government

aaa"Men, women and children are being killed and villages are burnt and looted because the central government is allowing militias aligned to it to pursue what amounts to a strategy of forced displacement through the destruction of homes and livelihood of the farming populations of the region." Amnesty International

aaaThe Sudan government is facing worldwide protests over the bloodshed, which the United Nations says has displaced more than one million people. As many as 30,000 people have been killed. Alert Net 18/07/04

aaa Sudan, has featured very prominently in the UK news recently as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. UNHCR estimates that up to a million Black Africans are now displaced, many living in terrible conditions in Chad.

"the world's worst humanitarian emergency" - Hilary Benn, International Development Secretary

aaaAhmed is a member of the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) which makes him especialy at risk of persecution, torture and possibly death if he is deported to Sudan. Since April the Sudanese government has detained 78 PCP members in rat-infested cells where they are subjected to torture.

aaa Ahmed Bashari has already been subject to 3 periods of detention whilst in Sudan by state security. One of these periods of confinement was documented in the official memorandum submitted by a delegation of the PCP party leadership to United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Sudan on 11th March 2001.

aaa Ahmed has exhausted the legal process of his asylum claim, which he made in September 2002 when he arrived in the UK. Since then Ahmed has established himself in the Sudanese community in Plymouth where he was living and is a well known figure in the Sudanese communities of Liverpool, Birmingham, Leicester and London.

aaa People from these communities are now campaigning to keep Ahmed in the UK.

aaa What you can do to help:
aaaAhmed Ibrahim Bashari Campaign is asking everyone to Fax/write to the Minister for Immigration Des Browne - requesting that the Ahmed is allowed to stay. You can use the model letter attached. Copy/amend/write your own version, feel free to add your own comments.

aaa You can fax Des Browne on 020 7273 2043, or from outside the UK +44 20 7273 2043

Or write direct to:

Des Browne
Minister for Immigration
Home Office
50 Queen Annes Gate
London
SW1H 9AT

Please take time to send a copy of anything sent to:
Ahmed Ibrahim Bashari Campaign
c/o NCADC
10 Hamstead Road
Birmingham
B20 2QS

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