| BRUK MUST STAY Act Now to Stop the Deportation of Bruk T.
End the detention of 19-year old epileptic asylum seeker -
Asylum NOW!
Bruktait 'Bruk' T is 19 years old and has been detained in Yarl's Wood detention centre for 5 months despite being epileptic and suffering severe seizures whilst in detention. Bruk is at the centre of a group of women organising in Yarl's Wood since the exposure of racism and sexism by Channel 4 News. She has been key to getting out the truth of the abuse faced by the women of Yarl's Wood, refusing to be silent and joining with other women in protests and resistance, demanding that Yarl's Wood is shut down once and for all. Bruk faces the threat of being deported on 31st March to face violent racist persecution in her birth-country. She came to Britain in December 2013 to escape constant racist attacks and abuse in the central Asian republic of Kyrghizstan. She is the daughter of an Ethiopian father and ethnic Russian mother and was raised by her maternal grandmother, spending much of her early childhood in Guinea Conakry. After returning to Kyrghizstan she was the victim of racist attacks throughout her teens, including knifing, and still bears the scars.
In Yarl's Wood Bruk has had frequent seizures yet she is in a daily struggle to get the regular medication that is vital to control the epilepsy, often not getting it or getting at the wrong times. Return to Kyghizstan is a potential death sentence for Bruk. She has no family or anyone else who could protect and support her. She doesn't speak Kyrghiz and would be at the target of renewed racist attacks, especially from fellow Russian-speakers. She must be released from detention, receive the medical treatment she needs and be granted asylum. We have won so much with the Detention Inquiry, The High Court decisions, the undercover exposures, the withdrawal of the Campsfield expansion and just today the announcement by Labour that they will end indefinite detention - all of these things have happened because of the movement and whether they are acted upon is down to us, what we do, inside and outside of detention to build the independent movement. That is why itso important that we make the next Surround Harmondsworth on 11th April the biggest one yet - make sure and book your transport now or get in touch with us if you want to organise a group to come from where you are. Join the Facebook Event HERE. What you can do.. Tell Turkish Airlines they must not collude in the Home Office's inhuman treatment of Bruk. She is due to be taken to Bishkek, Kyrghizstan via Istanbul on Turkish Airlines flights TK1998 / TK344 from Gatwick at 17.10 hrs. (5.10pm) on Tuesday 31st March. Phone London office 020 7471 6666 & 0844 800 6666 or Fax 020 7348 3867 Email Gatwick Office: [email protected] Quote Bruk's Home Office reference: T3009810. Demand that the Home Office cancel Bruk's deportation and immediately release her from detention. Send emails quoting Home Office ref. T3009810 to: Home Secretary: [email protected] Immigration Minister: [email protected] [email protected] Copy in these Home Office email addresses: [email protected]; [email protected] |
