Two Gambians are about to be sent to face the tyrant. One Mass Makie and wife Yasai and they are surely to face arrest. Please add your voices to thwart this inhuman treatment these two elderly couples could face.
Act now for we have only today. They will be sent by Tuesday if we do nothing.
Thanks
Bamba.x
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Sophy Gairdner <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 14 October 2012 12:53:51 BST
> To: Simon Marlow <[log in to unmask]>, Barbara Disney <[log in to unmask]>, Liz Clark <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, Bamba <[log in to unmask]>, Sengamhrl Jobe <[log in to unmask]>, Annie Menter <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fw: Please contact the airline to stop the flight to remove Mas and Ya Sai to Gambia this Tuesday
> Reply-To: Sophy Gairdner <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear all,
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> I won't make a habit of asking you to do this kind of thing, but this is such a shocking departure from justice and I am very fond of this pair. I very much fear for them if forcibly returned to the Gambian authorities, who we know are on the look-out for them.
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> If you have a free moment on Monday or today please ring the airline. All necessary details below.
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> I've just realised theirs is a Chartered Flight (ZB 5394 dep, Tuesday 9am). The Monarch chartered flights dept is 08712 252 555 and opens again on Monday.
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> With many many thanks if you can do this. If you find out anything useful do feed that back,
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> Sophy
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> Mass and Ya Sai are detained in Yarls Wood and face deportation on a flight this Tuesday 16 October. If the solicitors successfully get the removal cancelled, then great. No harm done. The airline have just been told that carrying deportation flights
> is unpopular and will make trouble and been asked to reconsider doing it in future. Not a bad thing.
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> PLEASE ALL CIRCULATE TOM'S MESSAGE AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN AND START CONTACTING MONARCH NOW.
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> We need to be very persistent and firm to get through to the person that really matters and can make the decision to refuse to take Mass and Ya Sai.
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> Their call centre is open Sun and Mon as well (see times below), but with more time to put pressure and give them
> the impression that support exists and is growing, I would think they would have more time to freak out and cancel the flight. All the details you will need are below about the air line and Mass and Ya Sai
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> uk call centre - scheduled flights (flight numbers starting ZB)
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> 08719 40 50 40 (calls cost 10p per min plus network extras)
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> Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00 (UK time) i
> Sat & Sun 09:00-17:30 (UK time)
> Bank Holiday Monday 09.00-17.30 (UK time)
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> Call for flight reservations (flight numbers starting ZB) and general booking enquiries including time, date and name changes. Due to increased demand you may be required to queue.
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> switchboard
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> 0871 2250250 (calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras)
> Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00 (UK time)
> Call for the Monarch head office switchboard.
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> I have pasted in the relevant bits of the flyer people made
> Mass Maki Mbye and Ya Sai Jeng,
> Flight number ZB5394, direct from Gatwick to Banjul, capital of the Gambia.
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> And this is a letter/script compiled from the flyer people wrote last time Mass and Ya Sai were detained and facing removal
> and from similiar letters/scripts I have used before.
> For if you don't know what to say on the phone/in an email...
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> I am writing/speaking in regards to flight ZB5394, due to leave at 09:15 hours on Tuesday 16th October from Gatwick to Banjul, Gambia. The flight is due to carry Mass Maki Mbye and Ya Sai Jeng,.
> They are asylum seekers who were politically active in Gambia and are being returned against their will.
> Both in their sixties, they have made the best of their situation here in Bristol and have a wide and diverse circle of friends who respect and love them.
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> Both Mass and Ya Sai have been active members of an opposition party since it was formed in the 1990s and Mass was twice detained, threatened and tortured before they left.
> Both Mass and Ya Sai attended a demonstration outside Downing Street over the recent presidential elections, at which they were probably photographed for the Gambian Embassy.
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> THESE TWO FACTS PUT THEM AT VERY HIGH RISK ON RETURN.
> AMNESTY SAY THEY ON NO ACCOUNT SHOULD BE RETURNED. So do the Sene-Gambian Human Rights Defence group, and the members of their party in exile, the UDP(UK). SO DO WE at Bristol Refugee Rights, Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers, and Bristol No Borders.
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> They are awaiting a report from Amnesty International which will provide further evidence for their asylum claim. UKBA are attempting to forcibly remove them without allowing them the opportunity to have this new evidence heard in court.
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> In carrying someone who is being taken, most likely in a state of extreme distress and fear, by force and with UKBA staff enforcing their cooperation, you
> will not only be allowing this elderly couple to be brutalised, but also exposing the airline staff and customers to this situation. There have been many reported incidents of violence against people in this situation, and the recent high profile case of Jimmy Mubenga, in which the victim died, witnessed by traumatised passengers, four of whom testified as witnesses in the subsequent trial against his killers.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/18/jimmy-mubenga-death-three-men-arrested
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> The health and safety considerations would also become more complex. An atmosphere of panic and trauma can create unpredictable behaviour from other passengers. I am aware of several cases where passengers have become aware that a flight is carrying someone against their will into a dangerous situation and have acted to prevent the flight by refusing to fasten their seatbelts or otherwise disrupting the flight.
> The link below is to an article describing this happening
> http://changezimbabwe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2501&Itemid=2
> I am sure you can imagine the expense and disruption, not to mention the damage to your reputation if something like this were to happen this Thursday.
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> The UK's asylum system does not allow many people a fair hearing because of cuts to legal aid, difficulties in finding solicitors to represent people,
> bias, ignorance and political pressure to hit arbitrary targets regardless of the merits of individual cases. By providing deportation flights, Monarch Airways would be implicating themselves in this injustice.
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> XL Airways changed their policy and refused to take any more deportations on the grounds that they did not want to be implicated in a breach of human rights.
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