Mary: Ugandan Lesbian, flight WED

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8th April 2013

Ugandan Lesbian, Mary K Must Stay!

Not One More Jackie Nanyonjo - Ugandan Lesbian murdered by the UKBA

Tell Kenya Airways - Stop Colluding with Racist Brutality!

Mary K is a lesbian asylum seeker from Uganda - a country whose political and religious leaders are whipping up a vicious anti-gay witch-hunt. She came to Britain - a country that has signed numerous international declarations on LGBT rights - in order to escape persecution and be able to live safely without having to hide her sexuality. Mary's experience has been ignored and disbelieved by the immigration authorities, like so many lesbian/gay refugees and women escaping persecution because of FGM, forced marriage, honour killing, trafficking etc.

Mary is being held in Yarl's Wood detention centre. She has already defeated one attempt to deport her. Now she has been given removal directions for Wednesday, 10th April at 8.00pm on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101.

Two weeks ago the UKBA tried to deport the Yarl's Wood freedom fighter Christine to Uganda on the same airline - we bombarded Kenya Airways and the Kenyan High Commission with calls, e-mails & faxes. Christine was not deported and now she has been released.

We can also stop Mary's deportation if everyone who was part of that fight takes the same action now and gets all their friends to join in. The Home Office relies on the co-operation of the airlines to carry out deportations; Kenya Airways is a principal agent in deporting LGBT asylum seekers to Uganda - If we continue to mobilise and expose what they are we can make it politically and commercially impossible for them to continue playing this role.

Call Kenya Airways to say that they must not take part in the forced removal of Mary K on Flights KQ101/KQ410 Heathrow-Entebbe via Nairobi

One of the things you can ask is what independent health & safety procedures they have in place to assess the health status of a passenger being forced to travel. If they have none and just take the word of the escorts, ask them how sustainable that policy is, in the light of recent fatalities in transit (Jackie Nanyonjo - another ugandan lesbian deported to Uganda) and widespread reports of serious brutality at the hands of the 'Escorts' They are liable in situations of injury or death during a forced removal. They have every right to refuse to fly someone who does not want to be flown for health & safety reasons alone.

Central Office: 020 8283 1800

Heathrow Office: 020 8759 7366

Passenger reservations: 020 8283 1818

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Fax: 020 8283 1880

Contact the Kenyan High Commission in London - ask them to contact Kenya Air and say that they should not be flying Mary K to Uganda - to do so makes them complicit.

Telephone: 020 7636 2371/5

Fax: 020 7323 6717

E-mail: [email protected]

IT'S TIME TO PUT THE UKBA & THE HOME OFFICE ON TRIAL

Can you help organise a hearing in your area...?

This brutal inhuman, torturous system of detention must end. We do not accept the racism, sexism and homophobia that asylum seekers are subjected to. We do not accept the racist lies and rhetoric spouted by politicians. We believe in and fight for a society with equality, freedom and justice at its heart.
Where people can travel freely across nations and borders;
where we stand together with our neighbours, friends, coworkers, fellow students and family to make this vision a reality.

The UKBA along with the Home secretary and the government is guilty of using extreme racism to shut down Britain's Borders and deny their right to provide protection and safety. In reality they seek the deportation of as many people as possible regardless of their reason for being in Britain, division and distraction is their goal - racism is their tool.

At MFJ's first ever public hearing putting the UKBA on Trial, (which you can watch the entire session on our vimeo page - https://vimeo.com/movementforustice/videos), we took a unanimous vote on the following....

"This is we believe the only just sentence on the question of immigration... to end detention, demand their release of all detainees now, stop the deportations, demand that the borders be opened and that people be able to travel freely. We say, grant all those who want it, full citizenship rights NOW."

We want to hold many of these hearings up and down the country and need people to come forward to host them. Our hearings will hear evidence from those freedom fighters, asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants, migrant workers, international students and all those who have experienced the racism of the UKBA & the Home Office. We will hear evidence about the truth of how Ugandan lesbian Jackie Nanyonjo was murdered by the UKBA, hearing from her friends and reading from decisions and evidence.

Already following a successful meeting where people attending the Leeds Queer Film Festival heard from our members we have a hearing set in Central Leeds for 1st May. On 22nd April, Students at SOAS are hosting a hearing.

Do you want us to come to your city, town, university, place of worship? Just email or call and we can work with you to make it happen.

"Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured".- Martin Luther King Jr.

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