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Mistreatment Of Failed Asylum-Seekers During Deportation

EDM number 2098 in 2006-07, proposed by Diane Abbott on 11/10/2007.

That this House is concerned by recent reports of the mistreatment of failed asylum-seekers during the deportation process including alleged physical and sexual assault and racial and psychological abuse at the hands of private escort teams paid by the Government; is particularly concerned that deportations continue to take place even when detainees show clear signs of mental and physical illness; is concerned at the story of Beatrice Guessie, who was so badly injured during deportation to Cameroon that officials at Cameroon airport refused to allow her entrance to the country and so instead she was returned to the UK where she was treated at Hillingdon Hospital for severe genital bleeding and multiple bruising and deemed by a psychiatrist to be in severe shock, only to be returned to Yarl's Wood detention centre; and calls on the Government to follow the recommendations of groups such as the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and the Medical Justice Network and urgently reassess its policy on, and methods of, deporting failed asylum-seekers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Diane Abbott11/10/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley15/10/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Mark Durkan15/10/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jeremy Corbyn15/10/2007Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Dai Davies16/10/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded
Martin Caton16/10/2007GowerLabourSeconded
Nick Harvey16/10/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew16/10/2007StroudLabourSigned
Robert Wareing16/10/2007Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Lynne Jones17/10/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
John Austin17/10/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/10/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard23/10/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
John McDonnell24/10/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington24/10/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster24/10/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/10/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson25/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Rowen29/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned

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