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Demo in support of Amdani Juma [continued Immigration Limbo]

Tash [alan lodge] | 26.07.2009 11:54 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles

At 5pm on Friday 24th July in the Market Square, he and his supporters joined a rally to highlight his predicament.

Amdani Juma immigration situation continues .......

At 5pm on Friday 24th July in the Market Square, he and his supporters joined a rally to highlight his predicament.

In 2003, Amdani Juma, from Burundi, was given 3 years Humanitarian Protection in the UK. Since then, he has become a well-respected community worker in Nottingham, employed by the Nottingham Refugee Forum and the Terence Higgins Trust. In 2007 he applied to stay indefinitely in the UK - but was refused. In June 2008, he was detained and nearly deported. Only after a huge campaign, was he released pending a ‘Judicial Review’.

Since his detention, Amdani has not been allowed to work, but he has continued both campaigning for refugee and asylum rights, and as an advocate of HIV prevention.

Last year, Amdani won the Trent FM / Evening Post Award for ‘Inspirational Contribution to the City of Nottingham’; whilst local MP Alan Simpson wrote:

‘I am not aware of any refugee who has made the contribution to the city and its communities comparable to that made by Mr Juma. He is an outstanding asset. Removing him from the UK would leave Nottingham (and beyond) much the poorer. There is no one, particularly within the AIDS / HIV field who could replace the work he does.’

In December 2008, the Home Office gave Amdani permission to marry, saying they would look sympathetically at his application to stay in the UK (because of his legal ‘right to a family life’) if he withdrew his application for the ‘Judicial Review’.

But no decision was made, and Amdani and his family suffered the anxiety of 6 months of ‘immigration limbo’. He recently received a letter refusing his application and threatening to deport him to Burundi. This letter gave no reasons for this refusal – and as such broke the Home Office’s own guidelines.

This is outrageous! Giving Amdani the right to stay here should be a no-brainer! His contribution to Nottingham has been huge. 6000 people signed his e-petition. Over 200 have written letters of support. He is a role model for integration and community cohesion. It would be another injustice for the government to split Amdani up from his wife and child and return him to the hostile environment of Burundi.

Now the Home Office seems to have changed their minds again, saying they will reconsider the case. But can we trust them? Isn't it time that they simply gave Amdani the positive decision we all want for him?

A torture survivor and pro-democracy activist, Amdani escaped death more than once. He has no family in Burundi; his cousin, brother and sister are all permanently resident in the UK or the Netherlands. Human Rights groups and the UN report ongoing human rights abuses and torture in Burundi.

Friends of Amdani
 http://friendsofamdani.wordpress.com

Please sign the e-petition if you haven’t:  http://www.petitiononline.com/amdani/petition.html

And Meet the Man:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyHu3GeNYk

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Demo to support Amdani Juma, at risk of deportation - Pics
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/399930.html

Protests in Support of Detained Resident [Feature]
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400067.html

Demo to support Amdani Juma, at risk of deportation - Mondays Pics
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400121.html

Amdani Juma's deportation, Countdown, 4 day to go - Stall at St. Peters
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400448.html

Amdani Juma's deportation, Countdown, 2 days to go - St Peters Stall
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400605.html

Demonstration for Amdani Juma's right to stay, Market Sq, Nottingham : Pictures
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/10/410467.html

From weapons to wars to refugees [Feature]
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/12/414200.html

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Tash [alan lodge]
- e-mail: tash@indymedia.org

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banner pix

26.07.2009 12:14



Demo banner. this is from the Nottingham Mayday Parade 2008

tash


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