[sheffield-noborders] Please Help Yosola and Haadiyah Ogunleye
Ruaridh Watson
ruaridh_watson at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 26 12:49:45 BST 2008
From: The Unity Centre
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:21 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Please Help Yosola and Haadiyah Ogunleye
Please help Yosola and Haadiyeh
Ogunleye
HO ref: O1113457 and
O1113457/2
Yosola and Haadiyah
Detention ID for Haadiyah when detained April 2008
Yosola at the Manchester Anti-War
demo 20/9/08 On trip to Talamh
Haadiyah in Manchester after the
demonstration
Yosola arrived in the
UK in 2001 and she moved to
Glasgow in 2007.
Yosola is a very active member of the Asylum Seeker community in Glasgow and recently has enjoyed trips to the Scottish
Countryside and a trip with Haadiyah and other asylum seekers to Manchester to participate
in mass civil society. Yosola and Haadiyah have made many friends and a home
here in Glasgow who wish that they will be able to stay in Scotland.
Yosola is a Muslim from the Yoruba
ethnic group and left her parents in early 2001 who were trying to force her
into an arranged marriage with a man twenty years her senior. She did not want
to be his sixth wife and was already in a relationship with a man she loved who
was a Christian from the Yoruba who was a British citizen. Due to the continued
threats from her family they decided to travel to the UK.
In early 2002, Yosola and her partner
went back to Nigeria to try to convince her
parents to accept the relationship because she wished to marry the man. They
were unsuccessful and a few days later, three men hired by her family came to
her partner’s home and beat him and sexually assaulted Yosola. The Nigerian
police did nothing when told of the attack and told Yosola to go back to her
parents and do as they say. Yosola and her partner then returned to the
UK to live.
Her partner provided her with documents,
including a National Insurance Number, which she thought were valid, and she
worked in London
from 2002 until she had saved enough money at which time she left her partner
and found a new flat for herself. She continued to work and go to job centres
and began a relationship with a man by whom she got pregnant, but when
confronted with her pregnancy the man demanded Yosola get an abortion and when
she refused he left her.
When she was 6 months pregnant she could
no longer work and applied for housing benefits, and it was then that she
discovered that her documents were false which were provided by her first
partner. Yosola gave birth to her beautiful daughter Haadiyah on the
3rd of February 2007 and applied for asylum in the
UK and was moved to Glasgow.
Yosola and Haadiyah were detained again (they had been in detention in
Dungaval in April 2008), Monday (22nd September) when attending their
regular reporting appointment at the Home Office in Brand Street. They
are currently in transit to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre in England, having been served with removal
directions for Virgin Atlantic Flight
VS651 on Saturday 27th September at 22:30 from London Heathrow to
Lagos, Nigeria.
Yosola’s parents are very well off in
Nigeria and have paid informants who work at the airports in the country who
have been given Yosola’s picture should she and Haadiyah be returned. Yosola and
Haadiyah will not only face being returned to her family forcibly, but there is
a real danger to both of their lives. Yosola’s parents have paid others to use
violence and a sexual attack on Yosola before when she disobeyed and with
Haadiyah, the baby, is in extreme danger for her
life.
Please help by contacting the Home Office and Virgin Atlantic to
request that the flight be stopped and Yosola and Haadiyah be
released.
1. Fax the Rt Hon Jacqui Smith, MP, Secretary
of State for the Home Office asking that Luc be allowed to stay in the
UK, please remember to include Yosola
and Haadiyah’s Home Office Reference Numbers: O1113457 and O1113457/2.
Fax 020 7035 4745 / from outside
UK+44 207 035
4745
2. Please phone, fax or
email:
Virgin
Atlantic Head Office.
Please remember to include the flight details (VS651 from
London Heathrow to Lagos,
Nigeria on
Saturday 27th September at 22:30).
Tel: 08705 747 747/ outside
UK: +44 1293 562
345
Fax: 08701 900 959
Email: customer.services at fly.virgin.com
or go to the following link and fill it out the forms and make specific in the
comments that deportation flights should not be operated by Virgin: https://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/customerrelations/contact_us/email.jsp
*No fax machine? No matter!*
If
you have a computer and access to the internet you do not need a fax machine to
fax.
There are two methods of faxing:
>From your browser go to:
http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
(the
number must be entered with the country code
so 020 7035 4745 (Home Office)
would be 44 20 7035 4745)
Send a fax via email
Use this email address
format :
remote-printer.recipient_name at fax_number.iddd.tpc.int
So,
to send the fax to Jacqui Smith put:
remote-printer.Jacqui_Smith at 442070354745.iddd.tpc.int
Just
copy your fax message into the body of the email.
The UNITY Centre
30 Ibrox
Street
Glasgow
G51 1AQ
0141 427 7992
www.unitycentreglasgow.org
PLEASE
NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: info at unitycentreglasgow.org
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