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Source: National Union of Journalists Join the National Union of Journalists in fighting the campaign for, NUJ member and asylum seeker, Charles Atangana who is facing removal to Cameroon. A judicial review has been lodged but he needs your support! Full details and campaigning resources at the NUJ website>>

UPDATE, 20 April. Flight is cancelled due to volcanic ash. The UK Border Agency will once again try to remove a group of people to Cameroon by charter plane this week. Many of those booked on the flight have been through this before, some suffering brutal assaults at the hands of the UKBA enforcers. Some [...]

The Local Government Ombudsman has ruled that Liverpool City Council failed to follow long-established guidance when social workers who had no specific training assessed the age of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking girl. Social workers who had no specific training assessed the age of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking girl, finds Local Government Ombudsman, Anne Seex. In her report, [...]

Update from the Berminie & Kieran Campaign To Stay In UK Berminie & Kieran face a new removal battle - removal directions set for Monday 25th January at 6.05am from UK on Easyjet flight U22431 Luton to Paris, for onward transit to Cameroon. Please keep trying to put pressure on the Home Secretary and the [...]

Campaign Update - Tuesday 19 January 2010 Update from the Berminie & Kieran Campaign To Stay In UK “They did not come to the room to collect her, so it looks like it was cancelled. Nobody in detention advised Berminie of anything being deferred / cancelled though. Thanks for everything. Fight continues.” Contact Berminie & [...]

Lydia Besong, a Cameroon national and resident of Manchester, is currently detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ 101 Heathrow TN4 on Monday 21st December 2009 at 19:00. Although he is not in detention, the Home Office also wishes to deport her [...]

Debut Playwright Lydia Besong and Human Rights Campaigner Bernard Batey told to leave UK and return to Cameroon Lydia Besong is a writer. Her debut play “How I Became an Asylum Seeker” is being staged by Community Arts Northwest (CAN) at the Zion Theater in Hulme, Manchester on 3rd December. She is also on the [...]