Ahmed Abdullah: Never left the UK on the 19th no details available on the why's and wherefores, not that it matters, he remains in the UK, unfortunately still in detention. No doubt we will be hearing more from Unity in Glasgow.
Ahmed Abdullah Belongs to Glasgow - This will be the second attempt to remove Ahmed
 Ahmed Abdullah a national of Somalia and resident of Glasgow, was detained on Friday 1st June when he went to sign at the UKBA reporting centre. He is currently in detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Qatar Airway flight QR76 from Heathrow @ 16:00 hrs to Doha on Tuesday 19th June 2012.and then Qatar Airway flight QR506 to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Ahmed is not a national of Tanzania, so it is not known at this stage if the Tanzanian authorities will allow him entrance into Tanzania. If they do they are more than likely to expel him immediately to Somalia.
Somalia has been home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis for many years. A country having little or no governance, endemic corruption, profiteering by ruling elites, very poor Human Rights, the government cannot/will not protect the population from others or itself, massive internal conflict, forced internal/external displacement, institutionalised political exclusion of significant numbers of the population, progressive deterioration of welfare infrastructure (hospitals, clinics, doctors, nurses) not adequate to meet health, needs, progressive economic decline of the country as a whole as measured by per capita income, debt, severe child mortality rates, poverty levels.
Ahmed is Bajuni and from a small island in the south of Somalia where he lived until he fled with his mother when he was aged 7 after soldiers shot his father. After his father was killed, Ahmed became a refugee and lived precariously for most of his adolescence in different refugee camps. In 2005, when he was 20, an agent arranged a fake visa for him to come to the UK under a Tanzanian identity so he could join is grandmother who was claiming asylum here.
UKBA have refused his asylum case due to his earlier use of a fake visa and the results of a controversial dialect analysis.
Most of his family are dead but Ahmed has recently discovered that he has an elder sister living in England who has a British passport and has lived in the UK for ten years. Ahmed was waiting for arrangements to be made for DNA analysis to prove he has been telling the truth about his identity when he was detained.
Ahmed has made a significant contribution in his local community in Govan, Glasgow and is well known to many people.
What you can do to help
(Please let the campaign know of any actions taken, info@unitycentreglasgow.org)
1) Email/Fax, Akbar Al Baker CEO Qatar Airways. Urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Ahmed Abdullah/Bakari Khamis Ali. Due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Qatar Airway flight QR002 from Heathrow @ 21:30 hrs to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on Monday 11th June 2012.
Put as much pressure on this airline as you can, to make them consider if it's worth the damage to their reputation to continue as one of UKBA's deportation airlines.
Fax: 0161 838 5398
Email: akbar@qatar.net.qa
2) Email/Fax Theresa May, Home Secretary
Ask her to exercise her discretionary powers to stay the removal and release Ahmed Abdullah from detention and to grant him protection in the UK. Model letter, AhmedAbdullahTM.doc attached or alternatively write your own one. Please remember to quote Abdullah's Home Office Reference number A1393864 in any correspondence.
Fax: 020 7035 4745
Emails:
mayt@parliament.uk
Privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
pscorrespondence@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
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