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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shaaaaa" data-source="post: 704851" data-attributes="member: 42114">71 Asylum seekers are on hunger strike from 4 Immigration Removal Centre in UK. User Rating: / 3 PoorBest Written by Administrator Jul 24, 2007 at 07:29 PM 71 Asylum seekers are on hunger strike from 4 Immigration Removal Centre in UK. Members of the Tamil Lawyers Association had an emergency meeting at the Tharisanam TV office to discuss the situation. Chairman of the TLA Mr Kris Savanan chaired the meeting and after long discussion the members of the TLA decided to contact the British Political leaders and request them to stop sending the asylum seekers back home until the situation improves in Sri Lanka. Mr Sivagilingam a Sri Lankan Parliamentarian attended the meeting and briefed on the current security situation in Sri Lanka. The Tamil Lawyers Association will be releasing a Press release tomorrow on this matter. They spoke by phone to some of the immigrants in the removal centre and Mr Ranjith a asylum seeker who was released that afternoon from Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre. Ranjith said that although they were well treated in the Centre the inmates were depressed and needed urgent help. Mr Sujeevan from Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre tried to kill him self yesterday because of fear of being sent back, He was taken to hospital immediately and the doctors managed to save him. He had been sent back to the centre but his inmates informed the Tharisanam TV that he was safe but was unable to talk due to illness. Another asylum seeker at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre who fell ill due to hunger strike was temporarily sent to his sister’s home in Harrow when his sister visited the centre. Councilor Thaya Iddaikader visited this centre today and spoke to the asylum seekers. . 28 ON HUNGER STRIKE at Harmonsworth Immigration Removal CentreColnbrook by Pass, Harmondsworth, West Drayton, UB7 0HB Telephone: 020 8283 3850, Fax: 020 8750 5231 10 ON HUNGER STRIKE at Haslar is an Immigration Removal Centre 2 Dolphin Way, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 2AW Tel: 023 92 604000, Fax: 023 92 60400123 ON HUNGER STRIKE at Oakington Reception Centre Rampton Road, Longstanton,Cambridgeshire CB24 3ZQ Tel: 01954 783 333 Fax: 01954 783 37810 ON HUNGER STRIKE at Tinsley House Immigration Removal Centre perimeter Road South,Gatwick Airport,Gatwick,West Sussex,RH60PQ Tel: 01293 434800 Fax: 01293 423221<a href="http://www.uktamilnews.com/index.php?optio...40&Itemid=1" target="_blank">http://www.uktamilnews.com/index.php?optio...40&Itemid=1</a> Tharisanam TV: learns that another Tamil refugee who was deported from London last week was arrested in Sri Lanka and is being detained in Negombo. CID sources at the Katunayake international airport confirmed that the Mr Sivaruban who was sent back to Sri Lanka was arrested on the 18th of this month (Flight UL504) and placed under detention in Negombo. Tharisanam TV spoke to Maharajan this morning at 9.40 am and he said that 15 from C Block and 13 from D Block ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE since Saturday afternoon. More that 100 detainees from different countries are in the said Harmondsworth refugee detention centre. Tharisanam TV spoke to the newly elected Member of Parliament for Southall Mr Virendra Sharma in his resident this morning who promised to speak to his senior members and personally go to Harmondsworth refugee detention centre and meet these asylum seekers. He also said that he was aware of the unsafe situation in Sri Lanka and also that Asylum seekers who were returned to Sri Lanka were arrested and tortured by the Sri Lankan forces and also about a asylum seeker who had died in police station in Sri Lanka.</blockquote>

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