The protest outside the UK Border agency in Cardiff this Friday called by Refugee Voice Wales has been gaining attention.
There has been support for the demonstration on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Indymedia, Everyone’s Favourite Comrade, Cryptonomicon, Cardiff Radical Socialist Forum, Urban75 and Permanent Revolution.
The BBC world service also recently aired an episode of Assignment: “Unlawful Detention” (Listen or Download) investigating claims that the government is routinely breaching its own guidelines and detaining vulnerable asylum seekers unlawfully. It features an interview with whistleblower Louise Perrett.
Also on Friday afternoon, there will be a protest outside the Serco offices in London. Serco is the company that runs Yarls’ Wood Immigration Prison, where our thoughts are with the women on hunger strike.
In the evening after the protest Cardiff STAR (Student Action for Refugees) will be holding their “Refugee Rythms” in CF10 at the back of Cardiff University Students Union featuring African drumming and breakdancing, Jouis, Trouble at Sea, Mab Jones and much more plus Middle Eastern and African food. Only £3 on the door.
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February 25, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Imran Ali
Sir/Maddam ,
I would like to state that my younger brother Amir Ali whose detained in Harmondsworth detention in london they keep issuing him with removal directions to pakistan and my brother is not safe at all to return back i am really stressed and worried over my brother i brought him up as a father and im not ready to loose him i know for sure he will die if he is sent back to pakistan he is from the balouchistan originally but he did obtain a pakistani passport he converted his religion and is not feeling safe at all to go back some where his life is in severe danger my relatives already been harrassed in pakistan and if Amir is sent back im gonna loose a brother im really worried over him he also applied for asylum it was once refused but dont know whts happening now they even gave removal directions today for the 3rd or 4th time i am really concerned about my brother is there anybody out there to help me save my brother from being sent back to pakistan ?