Hafsah
26-08-05, 03:39 PM
Stop Political Terror and CAMPACC present:
DEMONSTRATION - JUSTICE NOT DEPORTATIONS
Date: Saturday 3rd September 2005
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y
"The government's deportation policy is an affront to both natural
justice and legal justice!" (Mary Riddell, Observer, 14 August 2005)
Ten men, including some under control orders, were re-arrested on
12th August with a view to deporting them. The government claims
it can now obtain 'assurances' from Jordan and Algeria that they
will not be tortured. Their lawyer, Gareth Peirce, immediately
stated that in her view such assurances are not worth the paper
they are written on. These men can expect many more months of
being locked up whilst their deportation cases are appealed.
Faced with a choice of further long-term imprisonment without
trial or acceptance of a return to even worse threats abroad,
their desperation, can hardly be imagined.
Their deportation would amount to British collusion with torture.
Clearly it cannot be safe to deport people to the tender mercies
of regimes from whom special assurances must be sought that
certain individuals will not be tortured. Such assurances cannot
be held accountable. Even worse, both governments will have every
incentive to turn a blind eye to violations, just as happened in
previous deportations from the UK and other EU member states. The
British government is attempting to maintain internment without
trial by the back door - through detention pending deportation
or extradition, or by extending the 14-day period for which
suspects can be held under the Terrorism Act 2000.
We demand immediate release or else a fair jury trial of all
affected prisoners.
For more information please contact:
Tel: 020 7586 5892
E-mail: estella24@tiscali.co.uk (http://us.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=estella24@tiscali.co.uk&YY=5693&order=down&sort=date&pos=0)
Website: http://www.stoppoliticalterror.com (http://www.stoppoliticalterror.com/)
DEMONSTRATION - JUSTICE NOT DEPORTATIONS
Date: Saturday 3rd September 2005
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, Westminster, London, SW1Y
"The government's deportation policy is an affront to both natural
justice and legal justice!" (Mary Riddell, Observer, 14 August 2005)
Ten men, including some under control orders, were re-arrested on
12th August with a view to deporting them. The government claims
it can now obtain 'assurances' from Jordan and Algeria that they
will not be tortured. Their lawyer, Gareth Peirce, immediately
stated that in her view such assurances are not worth the paper
they are written on. These men can expect many more months of
being locked up whilst their deportation cases are appealed.
Faced with a choice of further long-term imprisonment without
trial or acceptance of a return to even worse threats abroad,
their desperation, can hardly be imagined.
Their deportation would amount to British collusion with torture.
Clearly it cannot be safe to deport people to the tender mercies
of regimes from whom special assurances must be sought that
certain individuals will not be tortured. Such assurances cannot
be held accountable. Even worse, both governments will have every
incentive to turn a blind eye to violations, just as happened in
previous deportations from the UK and other EU member states. The
British government is attempting to maintain internment without
trial by the back door - through detention pending deportation
or extradition, or by extending the 14-day period for which
suspects can be held under the Terrorism Act 2000.
We demand immediate release or else a fair jury trial of all
affected prisoners.
For more information please contact:
Tel: 020 7586 5892
E-mail: estella24@tiscali.co.uk (http://us.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=estella24@tiscali.co.uk&YY=5693&order=down&sort=date&pos=0)
Website: http://www.stoppoliticalterror.com (http://www.stoppoliticalterror.com/)