Bernard Mboueyeu - Won't fly Today (Monday 16th July), Due to Serious Self-Harm
Bernard remains in the health care centre @ Campsfield IRC this morning, terrified of removal, he drank an amount of 'cleaning fluid' last night, this is the second time that Bernard has done so. When it was discovered what he had done, Bernard was taken to hospital, butt returned to Campsfield under constant monitoring. He has been very ill, with diarrhoea and vomiting.
One has to ask UKBA why Bernard was able to access cleaning fluid, when UKBA know full well that numerous detainees have since 1993 the year the UK Immigration Estate was established with the opening of Campsfield IRC, have chose this method to self-harm.
[Family have requested that above information should be put in the public domain]
Bernard has been through hell, and so has Sharon. When will the Home Office recognise that if people are willing to choose death or at the very least severe injury, they must have grave and genuine fears? "Carole Angier" <carole@cangier.co.uk>
Second Attempt to Separate Bernard and Sharon
 Bernard Mboueyeu is a national of Cameroon and a resident of Sheffield where he lives with his family. He is currently in immigration detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 16th July 2012 on EasyJet flight U2431, @ 06:00 hrs from London/Luton to Paris Charles de Gaulle for onward transit on Air France flight AF900 from Paris Charles de Gaulle 13:50 hrs, to Yaounde, Cameroon.
Bernard fled Cameroon in 2007 after he was set upon by President Biya's security forces, for taking photographs of students being brutally attacked during protests in 2006 - he was working for a newspaper in southern Cameroon at the time. He was arrested, stripped naked, beaten up and detained for forty days. He was further persecuted by the authorities for supporting a political group opposed to the brutal ruling regime.
Bernard came to the UK in 2007 and married Sheffield woman, Sharon, a charity worker, in 2010. Sharon and Bernard have set up home in Wincobank. Whilst in Sheffield, Bernard has played a significant role in the local community as a volunteer with the Royal Society for the Blind, Aspire, Rainbow End charity shop. Bernard has also been involved with raising money for different charities.
Despite their marriage, the Home Office have demanded Bernard return to Cameroon to apply for a spouse's visa. If Bernard returns to Cameroon he could be detained, face torture, or locked up indefinitely and may never return to his wife Sharon in Sheffield.
Bernard has offered to return voluntarily to Cameroon if the Home Office guarantees his safety but the Home Office have refused to make that guarantee.
USA Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor/Human Rights Report: Cameroon
Human rights abuses included security force killings; security force torture, beatings, and other abuses, particularly of detainees and prisoners; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; and arbitrary arrest and detention of citizens advocating secession, local human rights monitors and activists, persons not carrying government-issued identity cards, and others. There were incidents of prolonged and sometimes incommunicado pretrial detention and of infringement on privacy rights. The government harassed and imprisoned journalists, restricted freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and association, and impeded freedom of movement. Official corruption was pervasive at all levels. Societal violence and discrimination against women, female genital mutilation (FGM), trafficking in persons (primarily children), and discrimination against pygmies and gays and lesbians occurred. The government restricted worker rights and the activities of independent labor organizations. Child labor, hereditary servitude, and forced labor, including forced child labor, were problems.
Tawanda Hondora, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Africa said: Cameroon has a horrendous record of gross human rights violations, including torture and killings, against dissidents and members of opposition. Political opposition is not tolerated in Cameroon. Any dissent is suppressed through either violence or abuse of the legal system to silence critics."
Family friends and Sheffield Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS) are campaigning to keep Bernard in the UK
What you can do to help
Bernard & Kath feel that Air France should be the main target
Please let the campaign know of any actions taken,
Kath Grant: <kath.northernstories@googlemail.com>
Bernard Mboueyeu: <mboueyeualain@live.co.uk>
1) Email/fax/phone, Carolyn McCall Chief Executive Officer EasyJet and urge her not to carry out the forced removal of Bernard Mboueyeu - Model fax <BernardMboueyeuEJ.doc> attached. You can copy, amend or write your own version - please quote, Bernard Mboueyeu due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 16th July 2012 on EasyJet flight U2431, @ 06:00 hrs from London/Luton to Paris Charles de Gaulle for onward transit to Cameroon.
Customer 'Service: easyjet@mailnj.custhelp.com
Carolyn McCall email: Carolyn.McCall@easyJet.com
Phone: 0158 244 3330
Fax: 0158 244 3355
2) Please fax/phone/Email, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, CEO, Air France and urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Bernard Mboueyeu - on Air France flight AF900 from Paris Charles de Gaulle, to Yaounde, Cameroon on Monday 16th July 2012 @ 13:50 hrs. Download model letter BernardMboueyeu AF.doc
Jean-Cyril Spinetta Chief Executive Officer Air France
Email: jcspinetta@airfrance.fr
Phone: 00 339 6939 1030 Fax: 00 333 4414 4479
2) Email/Faxing Theresa May, Home Secretary
Ask her to exercise her discretionary powers to stay the removal and release Bernard Mboueyeu from detention and to grant him protection in the UK. Download odel letter, BernardMboueyeuTM.doc or alternatively write your own one. Please remember to quote Bernard's Home Office Reference number D1142549 in any correspondence.
Rt. Hon Theresa May, MP
Secretary of State for the Home Office,
2 Marsham St
London SW1 4DF
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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