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....In a dawn raid last week, immigration officers broke down the front


door of Juliet's house in Hackney and took mother and daughter to
Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre ....

Att: Willie Walsh, BA Chief Executive Officer British Airways.

Re: Juliet Nakajja

Port Ref: MEU/779026

Home Office Ref: N1057768

D.O.B. 22/01/1985

Nationality: Uganda

Scheduled for removal on Flight BA0063 departing at 21.15 on 28 September 2007.

Fax: 020 8759 4314 (0044 20 8759 4314 if you are faxing from outside UK)

Dear Willie Walsh,

We are writing to ask that BA refuse to participate in the forced removal of Ugandan political refugee and rape victiim Juliet Nakajja and her 18 month old daughter Ashleen, who are scheduled for deportation on BA0063 to Entebbe at 21:15 tonight Friday 28 Sept. 2007.

Juliet’s lawyers are seeking to lodge a Judicial Review at the High Court today, in which case the deportation should not proceed. However, if for any reason she is brought to the plane against her will we appeal to BA to refuse to carry her on board. The presence of a distraught passenger and her 18 month old daughter under physical restraint by security guards cannot be conducive to the safety and comfort of other BA passengers or the capacity of your cabin crew to carry out their proper jobs.

Juliet fled from political persecution in Uganda in 2002. Soldiers separated her from her parents and she was hit and raped and then placed in a cell in army barracks. A substance sprayed in her eyes caused vision disturbances, reduced hearing and loss of smell ever since. She was raped again.
Last week, while Juliet was still awaiting the outcome of her fresh claim for asylum, immigration officers broke down the front door of her house in Hackney during a dawn raid. Juliet and Ashleen were taken to Yarl’s Wood detention centre.




Please do not allow BA to be used to assist the removal of this family.

Yours sincerely,

Name………………………………………


Address………………………………………………………………………………


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More information:

Urgent Help Needed for Juliet & Ashleen Nakajja

Juliet Nakajja and her 18-month-old daughter Ashleen have been taken
from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre to the airport to be
removed to Uganda tonight. Her lawyers are in the process of lodging
a Judicial Review to stop this forced removal. However we are asking
everyone who can to fax British Airways (BA) calling for BA to refuse
to carry her just in case the Judicial Review is not lodged in time.

This email contains background to Juliet's case, please use the
attached "model letter" julietBA.doc and fax to Willie Walsh, BA
Chief Executive Officer British Airways.

Please circulate this message widely to your networks

You can copy/amend/write your own version (if you do so, please
remember to include Juliet's removal flight details: British Airways
flight BA63 departing Heathrow airport at 21.15 Friday 28 September
2007.

Fax: 020 8759 4314 (0044 20 8759 4314 if you are faxing from outside UK)

Lawyers are seeking to lodge a last minute Judicial Review in the
High Court to stop the forced removal of Ugandan political refugee
and rape victim Juliet Nakajja and her 16-month-old daughter Ashleen.

In a dawn raid last week, immigration officers broke down the front


door of Juliet's house in Hackney and took mother and daughter to
Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford. Juliet was still
awaiting the results of a fresh asylum claim when the pair were
detained and scheduled for deportation to Uganda on British Airways
tonight.

Juliet Nakajja fled to the UK 13 February 2002. Both agents of the
state murdered her parents in Uganda, and her 3 brothers have
disappeared. Juliet's father was a leading supporter of Dr Kiza
Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change party (FDR). Juliet joined the
Uganda Youth Democratic Party (UYDP) and accompanied her father on
campaigns. Dr Besigye lost the 2001 election and accused President
Museveni of rigging the vote. Around August 2001 soldiers started
arresting, detaining and torturing leading campaigners in the FDR.

One evening soldiers entered the house, beat Juliet's father and then
put him and her mother into a truck. Juliet heard her mother
screaming. She never heard her father's voice again. Juliet was
driven off, hit and raped by soldiers and then placed in an army
barracks cell. A substance sprayed in her eyes caused vision
disturbances, reduced hearing and loss of smell ever since. She was
raped again.

Juliet was forced to become a soldier's 'wife' and kept under guard.
One day 2 members of the UYDP beat her guard and helped her escape.
She was taken to an agent in Kampala where she learned that her
mother had been killed. Friends of her father paid US$3,000 for
Juliet to escape.

On 28 March 2002 the Secretary of State refused her asylum
application but granted Exceptional Leave to Remain until 21 January
2003. However, further leave was refused. A fresh application for
asylum was later submitted, but Juliet was still waiting for the
outcome last week.

Juliet is an active member of Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support


Group and has also been involved in the planning group for the
proposed Hackney Migrant Centre of which she was appointed a Trustee.

A journey to Cameroon :Home Office and Human Rights

A journey to Cameroon is something Beatrice feared greatly as she believes that her life is at serious risk if she is returned. Her campaigning against the ruling party of Cameroon has continued in this country with the Social Democratic Federation UK, who are based in London, and she genuinely believes that if returned she will be targeted by the government and suffer serious persecution and abuse.

After campaigning in Liverpool about her own right to asylum and that of other asylum seekers with the Liverpool immigrant rights campaigning group Asylum Voice – Beatrice Ketcha Guessie was arrested on the 5th July 2007. She was detained in Yarls Wood, and then held in the Orchard Hospital Luton for several weeks because of a severe psychological disorder. Beatrice was returned to Yarls Wood to face deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday 28th August 2007 at 6.40 a.m.

Beatrice was returned to Cameroon but that journey was worse than even she expected. Beatrice states that she was physically kicked and abused by her ‘escorts’, to such an extent that the Cameroonian authorities would not allow Beatrice to enter Cameroon. They stated that “She is in such a bad way we cannot allow her to enter this country in that state.”

For a country whose human rights record leaves a lot to be desired it clearly is a travesty for the British government to proclaim be a defender of human rights across the world.
ON CAMEROON - The government's human rights record remained poor, and it continued to commit numerous human rights abuses. Security forces committed numerous unlawful killings; they regularly engaged in torture, beatings, and other abuses, particularly of detainees and prisoners. Impunity was a problem in the security forces. Prison conditions were harsh and life-threatening. Authorities arbitrarily arrested and detained Anglophone citizens advocating secession, local human rights monitors and activists, and other citizens.

US Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Cameroon 2006

Today the Foreign & Commonwealth Office advises against travel to a number of areas in Cameroon.

Beatrice was put on a plane back to the UK on Tuesday 28th August at 10 p.m. She was returned to Yarls Wood detention centre where she remains. Her mobile phone was taken from her making communication with her friends and supporters very difficult.

Beatrice came here to seek sanctuary from the harm she suffered. However, not only was her claim for protection refused, Beatrice was also the victim of rape and abuse following her arrival here in the UK yet is now held in detention like a ‘criminal’.

Beatrice’s solicitors are building her legal case for her right to stay here. We are also campaigning for her to be returned immediately to Liverpool and that she is given the right to stay. We ask you to fax the home office with your support and demand her freedom and right to stay.
Please send faxes immediately to Jacqui Smith, Secretary of State for the Home Office asking that Beatrice have the right to stay in the UK and to be immediately returned to Liverpool.

Please remember to include Beatrice's Home Office Reference Number

K1123945. Fax: 020 7035 3262 (00 44 20 7035 3262 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Please let the Beatrice Must Stay Campaign know of any faxes you send: Asylum Voice Liverpool PO Box 283, Liverpool L13 4WY Email : asylumvoice@yahoo.co.uk

Beatrice Must StayHO Office reference number K1123945