Immigration prison blockaded by anti-deportation campaigners

Early in the morning of 17th March, about 20 anti-deportation campaigners blockaded Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some Iraqi refugees due for deportation were being held. Using D-locks and superglue, the aim of the protest was to try and prevent the deportees being taken from the detention centre to Stanstead airport, where a special charter flight to Iraqi Kurdistan was scheduled that afternoon.

The blockade was violently removed by police after about 6 hours and Tinsley deportees, along with some 50 others brought from Campsfield and Dover detention centres, were put on the flight, which landed in Sulaimaniyya around 10pm. Nine protesters, including the six locked and glued to the gate, were arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) and taken to Crawley police station.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424608.html

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• Migration
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• Deportation
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• Tinsley
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• Action

[spastikman]

This is why YouTube > Mainstream News

[jjbarbados]

You let foreign mobsters buying fotball clubs and football players for millions into the UK and some of these people get jailed for taking 10K $ out of the UE to their families ...the UK is a 3rd world circus man

[unhooked25]

YES! Much More Deportation!!!

[charlieiscool1000]

wow these far left morons actaully want this country to be over taken by immigrants there arent enough being deported how about a protest too kick more out for gods sake wat a bunch of jokers

[cannonbell]

tanx ill take your geinus advice

[SouthernTexan2]

@cannonbell then stay the fuck out of here go back home we don want you or need u so fuck off sand nigger

[orriblebob]

Britain is full up!

Send the Buggers Back!

[Robin303]

When you read the view of the No Boarders groups it really is very fascistic & pro capitalist, they want to deny the people there right to say "No we don't want you here" for such a reason say pedophillia, violence, drugs ect, and also alow employers to drive down wages with emported labour.

So No to Boarders = redused rights & poor living conditions for the working class.

[newall7]

stupid brainwashed students

we have enough parasites on our benefit system, send these cadgers back

[raffles70]

another bunch of students who have fuck all better to do send them all back and take these fucken freaks with them