Workers' Liberty

Iraqi Kurdish hunger strikers strikers in Campsfield House, Oxfordshire have ended their Hunger strike following visits from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR).

On 9 August thirteen refugees from Iraqi Kurdistan began a hunger strike at Campsfield detention centre with this statement: "[The British state is] trying to deport us to the most dangerous country in the world. We want people to listen to us. It is better to be dead than to return to Iraq."

By Isabel Turnbull

Anti-deportation campaigners in Nottingham are trying to stop the deportation of Amdani Juma, a Burundian refugee and worker at the Nottingham Refugee Forum.

About 400 students and academics protested at Nottingham University on 28 May against the attempts currently underway to deport Hicham Yezza, a former university student now employed on the campus.

Mehdi Kazemi, the Iranian gay teenager threatened with deportation back to Iran (where his boyfriend was executed) has been granted unconditional asylum in the United Kingdom.

Whilst the deportation of Hicham Yezza temporarily halted by legal action on Friday, a worker from the local Refugee Forum also from Nottingham has now been arrested and faces deportation on June 4th,

About 400 students and academics protested today, May 28th at Nottingham University against the attempts currently under way to deport Hicham Yezza, a former university student now employed on the

On 27 March, Augustine, a Biafran independence activist was deported to Nigeria, where his brother has been killed and his wife and children are missing. He is still laid up with the injuries he sustained by the five thugs who twisted his neck and kicked and punched him to the ground while handcuffed. Unable to afford medical care, we fear for his life.

Over 150 people turned out on Saturday 22nd for a protest against the deportation of Iranian gay 19-year-old Mehdi Kazemi.

Over 150 people turned out on Saturday 22nd for a protest against the deportation of Iranian gay 19-year-old Mehdi Kazemi.

Mehdi Kazemi is a 19 year old gay man being threatened with deportation to Iran.

Respect Renewal MP George Galloway has been far from sympathetic to the case of Mehdi Kazemi, instead choosing to spew homophobic bile and defend the Iranian regime. Showing his complete contempt for human rights and democracy, he has levelled the ridiculous accusation that people campaigning against the deportation of Mehdi Kazemi are “the pink contingent of imperialism” — even though the protests are against our own government.

The first two weeks of March saw dozens of shootings, roadside bombs, car bombs and discoveries of mass graves in Iraq. Five years into the war, the country remains torn apart by sectarian violence, which marks its toll not only in bodies but also in destroyed basic infrastructure, power and supplies shortages and a grave lack of hospital beds.

Industrial News Roundup: RMT, NUJ, Unision, Immigration Controls

Feminists Against Borders will hold their first meeting, “Moving gender”, as part of the Gatwick No Borders Camp, Friday 21 September, 10am-1pm, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon.

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued the following appeal.

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued the following appeal.

URGENT ACTION - Pegah Emambakhsh solidarity and support campaign

From Peter Tatchell and OutRage!

Pegah is an Iranian lesbian asylum seeker who is facing deportation from the UK on 27 August 2007. She is at risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture, lashings and/or possible execution if she is returned to Tehran. A briefing on Pegah's case follows below.

Emergency Demonstration: Bring Back the Ndombassi Family! Oppose All Deportations!

Saturday 11 August
Assemble 12 noon, Platt Fields, Rusholme, Manchester

Demo supported by Bolton NUT, North We

On Thursday 23 August, the Home Office¹s policy of deporting 'failed' asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo will be challenged at a judicial review at the High Court ahead of a planned charter flight to Kinshasa on 30 August.

International Federation For Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and Coalition to stop deportations to Iraq (CSD Iraq) kickstart a campaign of action against deporting Kurdish Iraqi Refugees 22 June - 7 July

From No One is Illegal

Immigration controls are racist towards all those wanting to come or remain. They are based on the crudest nationalism. They have a particular, and often hidden, effect on disabled people.

Transport and General Workers Union branch 6/389 offers total support to Samina Altaf and her two children. Samina is a hairdresser is presently studying at Bury College.

By Amina Saddiq

At the end of March, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns reported that, across the country, the Home Office had accelerated its programme of rounding up and deporting Sudanese asylum-seekers, including people from war-ravaged and ethnically-cleansed Darfur.

Over one hundred socialists, trade unionists and anti-deporation activists attended the No One is Illegal trade union conference in Liverpool on 31 March. The day was spent discussing the politics of the fight against immigration controls and for migrant and refugee rights.

By Sofie Buckland, NUS national executive

One of the Darfuris faced with deportation is Sadiq Abakar, who has spent over seven years in Britain in Britain awaiting asylum.

From the No One is Illegal group

For the first time an alliance of General Secretaries of trade unions have come together in support of a refugee in detention and under threat of deportation. This is unprecedented. The refugee is Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor (Home Office reference number M1320887)

By THE No One Is Illegal campaign

For the first time an alliance of trade union General Secretaries have come together in support of a refugee in detention and under threat of deportation. The refugee is Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor.

By Karen Johnson

The Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq was formed in early 2006 following the deportation of 15 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers back to Erbil Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan.

[Posted 2 March, 2007]
Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor is a Nigerian asylum seeker. He is also a political activist helping organise refugees in Liverpool.