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Anti-deportation action

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    Two peaceful actions in July resulted in planned deportations of asylum seekers being halted,at least temporarily.
    The first, on 18 July, saw campaigners gathering at Heathrow Airport, where Zairean refugee Salim Rambo was due to be deported to Germany where he was likely to face subsequent deportation back to Zaire - possibly to his death.
        Assembling at the airport in the morning, activists succeeded in holding up the British Airways flight until the pilot refused to take off with Salim on board. Salim is now back in detention in London, his fate still uncertain.
        The success of this action was no doubt a major contributor to the outcome of a further action on 21 July, where the deportation of Kurdish refugee Amanj Gafor was cancelled the night before when British Home Office officials learnt of planned resistance to the flight. However, just one week later the Home Office deported Amanj to Germany amidst protests and arrests of anti-deportation campaigners at Heathrow Airport.
        Deportations such as this, like hundreds of others, may be considered illegal where the asylumseeker has not enjoyed the right of proper legal representation.
    National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (tel +44 121 554 6947; email ncadc@ncadc.demon.co.uk; http//www.ncadc.demon.co.uk/ ).
    United, Postbus 413, NL-1000, AK Amsterdam, the Netherlands (tel +31 20 683 4778; fax 683 4582; email united@united.non-profit.nl;     http://www.united.non-profit.nl/ ).
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