Posted on May 22, 2010, 8:56 pm, by simon, under
Damian Green,
Dungavel,
LibDems,
UKBA,
Yarl's Wood,
child detention,
deportation.
This is the text of Positive Action’s Statement to Supporters of the Sehar must stay in Scotland campaign. We made a last minute plea this morning at 8.30 am to all the key players including Deputy Prime minister Nick Clegg, Immigration Minister Damian Green, Theresa May Home Secretary, but to no avail. Sehar Shebaz was [...]
As the government announces that Dungavel will no longer be used for the detention of children, but will be re-purposed as ‘a health check’ facility for families who are facing removal, young mother Sehar Shebaz and her baby are being transported in a prison van to Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire from where [...]
Posted on March 5, 2010, 10:48 am, by simon, under
Cardiff,
UKBA,
Unaccompanied minor,
campaigns,
child detention,
children,
deportation,
mistreatment,
unlawful imprisonment.
Campaigners for the release of young Afghani orphan Mashal Jabari were delighted to hear that following a judicial review being lodged the judge agreed the following interim measures: until another full age assessment is completed, Mashal is to be considered 14 years of age and placed with a foster family in Wales where he has some support. After [...]
Posted on March 3, 2010, 4:41 pm, by simon, under
Cardiff,
UKBA,
Unaccompanied minor,
child detention,
children,
deportation,
unlawful imprisonment.
A recent photo of Mashal Jabari (right) with his 16 year old brother Zaki. A 14 year old orphan has been arrested & detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal centre near Oxford, which exclusively holds adult males, and is due to be deported because the authorities claim not to believe he is under 18. His older brother [...]
Posted on February 2, 2010, 7:46 pm, by simon, under
Cardiff,
DR Congo,
Home Affairs Select Committee,
Keith Vaz,
LibDems,
North Korea,
UKBA,
children,
deportation,
mistreatment.
The Guardian newspaper in its online edition, carries a report by Diane Taylor and Hugh Muir highlighting the shocking allegations of a former caseworker, at the UKBA office in Cardiff. The former UKBA employee, Louise Perrett, claimed that asylum seekers were mistreated, tricked and humiliated by staff working for the UK Border Agency. Ms Perrett reveals how staff kept [...]
By JO STEELE – Monday, November 16, 2009 www.metro.co.uk A boy of six who was born in Britain faces being sent to a war-ravaged part of Africa because his parents split up. Adrian Atkinson’s mother, Anna, has been ordered to go to the Congo Republic within the next nine days. The decision, based on Ms [...]