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                     DEMO OVER POLICE MURDER

An innocent young man is dead
Woolwich Somali community demand justice.
Community to mount protest 
outside
PLUMSTEAD POLICE STATION, LONDON 
SE18
THIS SATURDAY 1 APRIL, 1:30pm.

(trains go from Charing Cross).

This Saturday will see a picket of Plumstead Police Station, South
East 
London, to protest at the tragic and suspicious death of 22 
year
old 
Somali man Nuur Saeed as a result of a police operation.
Saeed's death takes place against a backdrop of rising harassment of
the 
Somali community at the hands of Woolwich Police.  Saeed's death
also 
follows the violent death in custody of Paul Coker, who died on
the 
floor of a cell in Plumstead Police Station after being arrested
by 15 
police officers in his flat last August.
The community in Woolwich are convinced that local police are out of 
control and that Somali youth are being singled out for special 
treatment.
It is widely held that officers are engaged in a racist vendetta after

two of the suspects allegedly involved in the shooting of WPC Sharon 
Beshenivsky in Bradford were two Somali men who have prior links to 
Woolwich. Young Somalis report that police are openly boasting they
are 
out for revenge.
This is the alarming context to the death of Nuur Saeed. Is he the
police's first victim?
The events surrounding Nuurs death are clouded with mystery  and his 
family are simply demanding to know the whole truth. The explanation
so 
far provided by the police simply does not add up. What are the
police 
hiding?
The police say that Nuur was in a house where they executed a search 
warrant in Plumstead on Tuesday 10th January.  The police say he fell 
from a second floor balcony. They say they found him o­n the pavement.
He
 was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, later
transferred to
 Kings College Hospital where he died of complications
arising from 
massive brain injury o­n Tuesday 24th January.

The Justice for Nuur Campaign are demanding that
* There is a truly independent inquiry into the circumstances 
surrounding Nuurs death to establish the exact events of 10th January
* There is no police cover-up
* The police officers involved are immediately suspended from duty,
and 
not allowed to go back o­n the streets policing our community
* Woolwich Police halt their racist vendetta towards the Somali 

community
* There is an immediate and independent investigation into Woolwich 
Polices harassment of young men, especially those of the Somali 
community
The family and friends of Nuur Saeed have put out a call across all 
communities to join them in a peaceful picket of Plumstead Police 
Station, Plumstead High Street, this Saturday 4th February at 2pm to 
protest at the death of Nuur and to demand justice.

Editors Notes:
* The family are being advised by solicitor Jane Deighton, who 
represented Duwayne Brooks during the Stephen Lawrence inquiry into
the 
investigation carried out by Greenwich Police  the same police
force 
implicated in Nuurs death.
* PC Wayne Bell of Plumstead Police was due in court in January for 
offences of racially aggravated public order and a public order
offence 
after he made alleged racist comments to a man in Plumstead
Police 
Station in July 2005.  (see news section o­n Independent
Police 
Complaints Commission website www.ipcc.gov.uk)

Justice for Nuur Campaign Press Contacts
Hassan Ali on 07939 231 905
Or Asad Hussain on 07723 078 194
Email: justicefornuurcampaign at googlemail.com 
   
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