Public Campaigns

No deportations from Yarl’s Wood - police investigation into sexual abuse ongoing

Published by NCADC on September 26, 2013 | 4 Responses

Campaign from Migrant Artists Mutual Aid, Liverpool. Amina’s story Last Friday our friend Amina, who has fled domestic violence and abuse in Pakistan, was detained by UKBA without warning whilst reporting in Liverpool. She has been held at Yarl’s Wood detention centre since then, and today received notice that she will be deported back to Pakistan on Tuesday 1 October. Whilst in detention Amina has not had access to a legal aid solicitor due to the waiting list at Yarl’s Wood and therefore has not been able to build a case against her deportation. The lack of access to justice has been exacerbated by Read the full article…

Moses belongs to Glasgow

Published by NCADC on September 13, 2013 | Leave a response

Campaign from Unity, in Glasgow Moses was detained in August and is threatened with removal to Zimbabwe on 19 September Moses, the 24 year old Zimbabwean rugby player from Glasgow who has been detained by the UKBA has now been given removal directions when the Home Office will try to deport him back to Zimbabwe. Moses has been given removal directions to Harare, Zimbabwe, on Thursday 19th September on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET701 at 21.00hrs. We urgently need you to help Moses today. Facebook groupOnline petition Moses started college in 2009, studying for an HNC in computing, where he met Read the full article…

Evenia Mawongera

Published by NCADC on September 13, 2013 | 8 Responses

Evenia Mawongera is 55 years old. She lives in Leicester and is from Zimbabwe. She has been living in Leicester with her daughters and grandchildren, all of whom are British citizens, for close to 10 years. The Home Office wants to remove her to Zimbabwe where she is at risk of arrest, persecution and extremely serious ill-treatment. Although her daughters and grandchildren are British citizens, Evenia is an asylum seeker and has been in the asylum system for the past 5 years. As part of asylum conditions, Evenia regularly reported to the UKBA reporting station in Loughborough. However, on Friday Read the full article…

Fozia and Nawaz: love across the faith divide

Published by NCADC on September 6, 2013 | 1 Response

Fozia and Nawaz are a married couple in grave danger of so-called ‘honour killing’ if returned to Pakistan. They face extreme violence from Fozia’s family and community persecution because they have crossed the faith divide. Yet the Home Office is intent on deporting them. As the couple wait for a date for their judicial review hearing, the threat of deportation hanging over them is taking its toll. They need your support. Sign the petition Love across the faith divide Fozia is a Syed Shia, Nawaz a Sunni. Well-established and successful in business and politics across Pakistan, Syed are regarded as Read the full article…

Let Martha Storey Nkhoma come home to her community

Published by NCADC on September 5, 2013 | 1 Response

Campaign from Faiths in Action Women, Nottingham. Please help bring Martha home to her community and protect her human rights! Martha is central to Nottingham interfaith projects, in peace work and women’s empowerment and in her church. In early August Martha was taken with only the clothes she was wearing and detained under threat of deportation. For the first few days she was not able to call anyone, including legal help and was not given medicine for her high blood pressure. This is happening in the UK, now. As a woman alone criminalised in a failing system that is neither Read the full article…

Stop the deportation of Elizabeth from Leeds

Published by NCADC on September 4, 2013 | 3 Responses

Bukola Elizabeth Moses from Nigeria campaign via No Borders Leeds Yesterday, Elizabeth was horribly woken by 2 van loads of UKBA officers entering her home. They demanded that she and her 2 children get into the van. She has been taken to Cedars, the detention centre disgracefully run by the children’s charity Barnardo’s. Elizabeth has been here since 2007 and has started her new life here after fleeing her abusive ex-husband in Nigeria. She has a new partner and both her children (aged 5 and 3) were born here. They are doing very well at the local school and nursery Read the full article…

Roseline Akhalu

Published by NCADC on July 25, 2013 | 1 Response

26 July STOP PRESS: the Upper Immigration and Asylum Tribunal has REJECTED the Home Office appeal and so the Lower Tier Immigration Tribunal’s decision stands. Further details and a press release to follow soon. Rose’s Campaign Team Rose came to the UK in 2004 to study a Masters degree. After arriving, she was diagnosed with renal failure. A successful kidney transplant saved her, but she needs to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. Such drugs are prohibitively expensive in Nigeria and so, if deported, Rose could die within four weeks. In November 2012, the Immigration Tribunal agreed Read the full article…

Tamin Nemati

Published by NCADC on July 22, 2013 | 1 Response

Tamin Nemati is 23 years old. He lives in Swansea, but is originally from Afghanistan. He never knew any life there except the daily terror of living in a war-zone. He first left Afghanistan when he was 9 years old and made his way to the UK in 2007. He applied for asylum, but was refused. In 2010 his appeal was refused and he was told that he had exhausted his right of appeal. He is currently being held in the Campsfield Detention Centre near Oxford. He is due to be forcibly returned to Afghanistan on flight PVT081 at 00.10 Read the full article…

Marie Therese Nana

Published by NCADC on July 3, 2013 | Leave a response

“I thought that I came in a safe nation which should protect me but I realise that I have thrown myself into the den of a lion.” Marie Therese Njila Nana is a survivor of ritualised torture in Cameroon. She has sought sanctuary in the UK, but her treatment in detention has been shocking. She describes her experiences in Yarl’s Wood as being “humiliated, assaulted, abused, tortured mentally, physically and emotionally”. Marie Therese was finally released from detention in March. She now has a date for her judicial review hearing - 30 July - and needs your support. Many of Read the full article…

Odette Sefuko

Published by NCADC on July 3, 2013 | Leave a response

Seeking sanctuary and justice Odette Sefuko came to the UK seven years ago, to seek safety and live a life free from persecution. She is a fighter for minority rights and women’s rights in DR Congo, and now Odette is fighting for her right to sanctuary in the UK. Odette’s campaign has also been featured in the Guardian’s Northerner Blog, and you can watch a video of the fantastic support rally held in Sheffield. Find out more at the Facebook campaign group or see the campaign page at NCADC.