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Refugees: Tightening the Screw 133 against Group 4. Group 4 still has its contract to run Campsfield. Its staff have not been disciplined, sacked or even moved elsewhere. The Campsfield Nine Defence Campaign called for all the Nine to be freed and granted refugee status or exceptional leave to remain, for the resignation of Mike O’Brien, for an apology and compensation from Jack Straw, for criminal charges against Group 4 and the scrapping of its contract. So far Mike O’Brien has been moved to another job. Lawyers have embarked on claims for damages for malicious prosecution from Group 4 and the Home Office. In notable victories, they have won their case in the High Court that John Quaquah, one of the Nine, should not be deported by the Home Office while he is suing the Home Office and Group 4, because the case was of sufficient public importance and the Home Office had not taken adequate account of Mr Quaquah’s human rights. In another High Court judgment Mr Justice Turner said that ‘if the conduct of the Group 4 officers both during the incident of unrest itself as well as their conduct in giving unreliable/false evidence was established, then it satisfied the description of having been “wicked”’. The authorities’ heavy-handed action did not have its intended result. Shortly after the trial ended, the detainees at Campsfield protested again. Announcing their action, hunger strikers at Campsfield put out the following statement: We’ve come to UK seeking shelter from injustice, hoping to get back our right to live full lives, just like you do. The right that has been taken away from us, back in our home countries. Maybe some of us have overstayed, or entered Britain illegally. But we didn’t do this for ill purposes. We are not criminals, we are the victims. English people have acquired incredible fortune due to their pious nature. Why not share some of it with us. Give us a chance to prove ourselves. We don’t need much. Some of us have families here. They need our support and love. Why lock us up like animals, separate from our wives and children. We did not commit any crimes. The hunger strikers’ spokesperson, a Nigerian opponent of the military regime and a pastor, was removed to Rochester. Three months later he got refugee status.
4 RESISTANCE RESISTANCE IN BRITAIN The protests and hunger strikes by detainees themselves at Campsfield and other refugee prisons have done more than anything else to draw attention to the plight of refugees and other migrants. They have received a good deal of media coverage, some of it sympathetic, and attracted support from campaigners and other members of the public. Those who are locked up inside prisons and detention centres are driven to desperation, and, although they demonstrate great courage, perhaps feel they have little to lose by protesting. On the other hand refugees who are outside, on temporary admission and waiting for the results of their claims, and even those who have been granted refugee status, are hesitant about engaging in protest and demonstrations and any form of public activity which might land them back in detention or, they fear, damage their cases and make deportation more likely. An Algerian released after his hunger strike at Campsfield in early 1994 was detained again after he was interviewed on television at a demonstration outside Campsfield; the same fate befell a Ghanaian who spoke on television. The document granting refugee status states that the refugee may be deported ‘if during your stay in the United Kingdom you take part in activities involving for example the support or encouragement of violence or the conspiracy to cause violence, whether in the United Kingdom or abroad, so as to endanger national security or public order’. In addition refugees may be reluctant to draw the attention of the authorities in their own countries to themselves in case they are later deported. There are some exceptions to this reticence, among both individuals and groups. The Algerian who was falsely accused of setting fire to a toilet and removed to Winson Green (see p. 126) has been determined to publicise his treatment and not to let Group 4 get away with it. Some of the Campsfield Nine have been willing to speak publicly at meetings and to come to demonstrations. The Onibiyo family conducted a sustained public campaign to save Abdul and his son Ade from deportation; although Abdul was deported to Nigeria and imprisoned and tortured, he eventually escaped and won refugee status after more campaigning, and in spite of the Onibiyo family’s frequently stated belief that Straw and O’Brien reneged on pre-election promises they 134
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2 BORDER CONTROLS RACISM Many, prob
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ORGANISATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS Amnesty
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