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Direct action gets the goods: blockade helps stop 35 people being deported

some of no borders | 21.09.2012 15:30

A blockade of Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres on Wednesday (19 September) held up the UK Border Agency’s planned deportation of Tamil refugees back to the killing fields of Sri Lanka. With one person D-locked under a deportation coach, the blockade held for 3 1/2 hours, long enough for the deporters to miss their flight slot and for 35 people to get off with legal injunctions.

srilanka blockade 9/12
srilanka blockade 9/12

At 2.30pm on Wednesday, 60 Sri Lankan nationals, mainly Tamil, were due to be deported to Colombo from Stansted airport where they faced a very real risk of arrest and torture on arrival. [1]

However, at 11am, as one of the WH Tours coaches of deportees emerged from Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres headed for the airport, around a dozen people rushed to stop it. One of them climbed under the coach and attached their neck with a bicycle d-lock to the underside. Supporters immediately held up a sign telling the driver not to move as someone was under the coach, and recorded themselves explaining this to him. The coach then remained stationary for 3 1/2 hours. The engine was kept running: according to the driver, turning off the ignition lowers the suspension and could result in the person being crushed. This may seem dangerous for the person involved, but it was a much smaller risk than that faced by many of the people on the coach who feared torture or death on return.

Vollständiger Text:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/09/500390.html

siehe auch:

Sri Lankan asylum seekers removed from deportation flight at last minute after judge accepts there is risk of torture
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sri-lankan-asylum-seekers-removed-from-deportation-flight-at-last-minute-after-judge-accepts-there-is-risk-of-torture-8157192.html

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