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Alleged abuse during the attempted forced removal of Maud Lennard (Home Office ref No. L1096927) to Malawi on the 12th November 2007 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 Maud alleges that she was abused during the above-mentioned attempted removal and described to her supporters ; “I was boarded on the plane by 5 immigration escorts. I was feeling sick and went to the toilet at the back of the plane. When I came out I shouted out that I am in danger. They grabbed me onto a seat. They were all over me, chocking me. The pilot came down the plane and said he would not fly me. The escorts double handcuffed me. They pushed me into a vehicle and called me terrible things, including “filthy” and “black pig”. They also said “You don’t belong in Malawi or Zimbabwe – next time we are going to take you to the Congo and throw you into the river and the crocodiles will eat you, because that’s what you deserve” “ Maud was an activist with the Movement for Democratic Change, the opposition movement in Zimbabwe. She says she was abducted in March 2003, questioned about her political activities, tortured and raped. Like others in her position, Maud says she fled Zimbabwe using a Malawian passport that she had paid a bribe for as a means of escape. This has lead to the Home Office to deport her to Malawi. Maud says she is likely to find herself on the wrong side of the law when returned to Malawi because the Malawian passport she used may be viewed by the Malawian authorities as having been obtained fraudulently as one cannot take up Malawian citizenship after the age of 22 (Maud is in her thirties). It is likely that the Malawian authorities will deport her on to Zimbabwe, where she is at great risk of further persecution. Maude says she is so desperate that she, together with other Zimbabwean detainees, has spent more than 40 days on hunger strike in Yarl's Wood detention centre. She is very weak and was recently hospitalized. Maud’s claims of being at risk seem to be well backed up ; “Since 2004 the Home Office has sent at least 11 Zimbabwean asylum-seekers to Malawi. Of those at least five ended up back in Zimbabwe. … Among those who have already been returned is the anti-Mugabe activist Francis Asima. … he was finally taken to Malawi in November 2006. Once in Malawi he was arrested for the false declaration of a Malawi passport, and after two months in prison he was deported to Zimbabwe. Since arriving in Zimbabwe he has already been tracked down by the government, and narrowly escaped arrest. The last anyone heard from him was that he had gone into hiding.” The Independent, 26 October 2007 "The British government are just trying to meet their targets on migrants. Malawian passports obtained over the age of 22 will be seen as fraudulent documents when they are returned to Malawi, as you cannot take up citizenship after that age. So when they arrive they are sent to prison. Because of these fraudulent documents, the fate that awaits those Zimbabweans sent back to Malawi is simply another deportation to Zimbabwe." Patson Muzuwa, chair of the Zimbabwe Association "Malawi does not want to keep these people, so they are sent back to Zimbabwe. It's not speculation, it's happening." Undule Mwakasangula, director of the Centre of Human Rights in Malawi Many feel the UK's immigration policy is cruel and the UK Government is hypocritical : at the Labour Party conference in September, Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister promised to stand up for those suffering persecution from brutal regimes like that of Zimbabwe in what he described as the world's "darkest corners" and that "human rights are universal". "Britain will not shirk our responsibilities to the people of Zimbabwe .... There is no freedom in Zimbabwe: no freedom of association; no freedom of the press. And there is widespread torture and mass intimidation of the political opposition." Gordon Brown, 20th September 2007 I am extremely concerned about how Maud has been treated and I ask that she be released immediately and granted protection in the UK. Yours sincerely, Name : …………………………………………………………….. Address : …………………………………………………………….. 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