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Every 26 minutes we must STOP A DEPORTATION
Jannatul and her children Ishtiaque and Nazifa – Let Them Stay

Jannatul Chowdhury fled from Bangladesh two and half years ago with her family. Ishtiaque and Nazifa were kidnapped by members of the leading political party of Bangladesh leaving Jannatul and her husband Naushad no choice other than to pay the ransom. Despite being victims of such a dreadful crime the authorities refused to take any action over the kidnapping which left the family living in permanent fear and with the belief that they could never be safe in there again so they fled to Britain to seek asylum.

Naushad, Jannatul’s husband died of a heart attack in December 2005. Emergency heart surgery was cancelled 3 times and the family believe that this negligence caused his death. Nauchad is buried in Liverpool and this ties the familly strongly to the area. Jannatul had to take on the family’s asylum claim and it was refused.

Despite the trauma they suffered from the kidnapping, the tragic death of their father, the stress caused by the immigration system such as enforced dispersal to different houses in Liverpool, surviving on the meagre NASS support all this both children are doing very well in school. But now they are being imprisoned at Yarls Wood detention centre and are facing a terrifying imminent deportation back to Bangladesh.
All the pupils and staff at Childwall Sports College are distraught at what has happened and cannot understand why this is happening. Yet Liam Byrne has decided that they do not have the right to stay here and inhumanely had them snatched at dawn on Tuesday 27th March and booked them onto a flight on Sunday April 1st at 3.45p.m.

In Liverpool Jannatul assists with ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) classes at Asylum Link Merseyside and regularly cooks for other asylum seekers there. She writes for a local newsletter/magazine for the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. And she been actively campaigning for her own family’s right to stay and also for the rights of others seeking asylum in the Asylum Voice (of the undocumented) campaign group in Liverpool which was set up and is led by asylum seekers and others who are undocumented.

There are other factors to consider:
There is an ongoing negligence case being pursued by Alexander Harris against the Cardio Thoracic Unit of Liverpool NHS Trust, following the Nauchad’s death.
Jannatul is scheduled for surgery on the 3rd April to explore severe abdominal pain – this condition will be made worse by her current predicament and Nazifa was due to see a consultant at Alder Hey Neurological Clinic for serious migraine/eye problems which have been getting worse.
Ishtiaque did very well in his GCSE’s and is working towards his AS levels and he is set for a university place.

Jannatul has slowly rebuilt her life and that of her children through hard work, perseverance and with the support of all the people around her. To send this family back to Bangladesh is cruel and inhuman. To remove a mother and her children like this is an appalling endightment of this government and its cruel immigration system. It is nothing to do with justice or fairness it is a racist system which is only concerned with achieving targets

What you can do to help: · Write to Liam Byrne MP, Home Office, Peel Building 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF – quote HO ref: C1167819 email http://uk.f281.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=byrnel@parliament.uk&YY=64759&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b Tel: 0121 789 7287Fax: 020 7035 4745 from outside the UK + 44 20 7035 4745
· Contact British Airways and demand that they collude in the forced removal of this family refuse to fly the family Flight Details – BA0145 from Heathrow to Dhaka 15.25 1st April
Tel 0870 850 9850 Email: webformuk@email.ba.com· Louise Ellman MP Tel 0151 236 4301 London fax 020 7219 2592 emai: http://uk.f281.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ellmanl@parliament.uk&YY=64759&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b