Asylum seekers issue Harmondsworth hunger strike demand

Treat us like humans’: Asylum seekers issue Harmondsworth hunger strike demandAn asylum seeker in Britain’s largest migrant detention center claims inmates have issued authorities with a series of demands, among them the cancellation of a deportation flight to Pakistan scheduled for Tuesday

 

While it is difficult to know how many people are protesting or on hunger strike, he believes it is the majority of asylum seekers.
He said the demonstration began in Harmondsworth on March 9, however Ahmad Omid, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, has told RT it started earlier, on March 7. howdery, 23, is a Pakistani who claimed asylum in the UK in November last year because he fears persecution if he returns to his home country.
According to his lawyer, Sima Najma of Kher Solicitors, his case has been rejected twice, initially by the Home Office and then by an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
He is currently in the process of appealing to the High Court.
Speaking to RT, Najma said: “If he’s returned [to Pakistan] he’ll be persecuted in such a way that he fears for his life.”
Chowdery has been caught up in a feud since he chose to defy his family and marry a non-Muslim woman from Romania.
Najma said he has received death threats from family members, some of whom are high up in government.
In addition to his fear of persecution, his legal grounds for asylum also include the belief he will not have “sufficiency of protection” and that he cannot internally relocate within the country.
Both of these stem from the belief that if Chowdery returns to Pakistan he will not be able to seek protection from the state because of corruption within the police force.
In an email to RT, Chowdery said protesters have issued a list of demands, which include the cancellation of Tuesday’s deportation flight to Pakistan.
IF THE LEADERS OF CERTAIN NATIONS ARE NOT CORRUPT NO ONE WILL WANT TO LIVE LIKE A DOG IN ANOTHER COUNTRY STILL CAN FATHOM WHY CITIZENS OF CERTAIN NATIONS ARE NOT CARED FOR .