Immigration Deaths and US Fact & Justice After a protest at Harmondsworth Detention Centre following the dying of a detainee I travelled into central London to cowl a protest on the US Embassy in Grosvenor Sq. on the eve of US Elections.
Noisy Demo after seventeenth Immigration Demise – Harmondsworth Detention Centre
Campaigners from the All African Ladies’s Group and others demonstrated noisily on the Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre because the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman paid a go to following the dying every week in the past of Prince Kwabena Fosu, a Ghanian who died after ‘restraint’ by GEO Group employees.
Statements from different Ghanian detainees on the website alleged that Fusu had sustained large blows from one officer who has later requested to vary his “blood stained garments in order that nobody would discover what occurred” and that the officer involved is now on depart “with the intention to pervert the course of justice“. There seems to have been no correct police investigation of his dying.
The protesters walked down the personal street resulting in a BT facility which runs between the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Detention Centres simply north of Heathrow airport, ignoring an indication stating “No Tresspassers Allowed‘ with a banner ‘We are going to NOT let this dying be Silenced‘ and made their presence apparent to the boys imprisoned inside with a megaphone and a few loud shouting.
The detention centres are surrounded by 20ft excessive stout steel fences, the decrease half with steel sheeting and the highest 10ft of a heavy steel gauze. By way of this these on the higher flooring of the centre may see the protest and we may see moderately shadowy shapes watching us under, and will hear some shouting and folks banging on the bars of the window as guards tried to cease them.
I walked with the protesters across the Harmondsworth website, watched by police and G4S safety employees. When some protesters started kicking and stamping on the steel fence to make a noise, police and G4S safety got here to inform them they need to cease and depart the location.
The police officer in cost learn a discover charging the protesters with aggravated trespass and warning them that until they left the location now they’d be arrested, and that they had been banned from returning withing 3 months. The protesters determined to depart moderately than be arrested, and really slowly left the location.
As so usually in instances involving custody deaths, the inquest was lengthy delayed and solely concluded round seven and a half years after Fusu’s dying. It concluded that his dying had been contributed to by neglect and a number of severe failures by the Dwelling Workplace, GEO who had been working the detention centre when he died, Primecare who had been liable for healthcare companies, docs and everybody else concerned.
Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST, mentioned: “It’s unconscionable that somebody entrusted to the care of the state can die on this approach. The jury have delivered a damning indictment of all of these accountable. Prince was failed at each degree, by people and businesses who owed him an obligation of care. He was handled in dehumanising approach and as a self-discipline drawback moderately than as a severely unwell man in want of compassion and medical care.
“His dying comes as a direct results of the UK’s hostile immigration insurance policies. This bolstered a poisonous tradition of indifference and neglect, the place professionals who got here into contact with Prince had been merely unable to see the human being earlier than them.”
No legal costs have been taken towards any of the businesses or people concerned in Fusu’s dying. The CPS took years to say no to carry any costs of company manslaughter. After deciding to carry lesser costs underneath the Well being & Security Act 1974, they then reversed that call.
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Fact, Justice and the American approach? – US Embassy, Grosvenor Sq.
On US Election evening the London Guantánamo Marketing campaign hosted a protest outdoors the US Embassy at which varied organisations raised human rights considerations about prisoners within the USA.
Among the many different organisations with audio system on the occasion had been Cease the Conflict, tne Inexperienced Occasion, Save Shaker Aamer Marketing campaign, Free Talha Marketing campaign, Cageprisoners and extra and there have been additionally some performers between the speeches. And thre was a silence with candles being lit to recollect the various who’ve been killed.
The protesters gathered across the statue of former president Eisenhower to 1 aspect of the Embassy frontage, which was being lit up for election eve with a laser projections of the celebs and stripes.
The audio system highlighted shameful human rights abuses being carried out by the USA, significantly at Guantanamo, and known as for whoever was elected President to shut the jail camp and finish the illegal apply of extraordinary rendition. There have been additionally these calling for the discharge of Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning, the whistle-blower jailed for releasing particulars of US battle crimes.
Aisha Maniar, organiser for the London Guantánamo Marketing campaign, mentioned: “4 years in the past, a brand new American president, Barack Obama, promised the world a change it may imagine in. One change he put his title to in writing was the closure of Guantánamo Bay and the tip of army tribunals there. That has not materialised; the American administration has added drone assaults to its repertoire of extralegal exercise, expanded the scope of arbitrary detention with out cost or trial, and over 160 prisoners stay at Guantánamo Bay after nearly 11 years, together with British resident Shaker Aamer.”
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