Photo: JOHN OWEN WILL detention without trial and legal advice introduced in Britain? The answer is that it's here already.
It vou 'suspected illegal immigrant' you can be indefinitely without legal rights, and deported with no right of appeal. If you're black and living in Britain, your life can become a nightmare any moment.
Take the case of Abdul Azad from Oldham. First came the horrifying that his mother murdered. The police investigated. They took blood tests.
Then came their conclusion that Abdul was an illegal immigrant. What happened next has been spelt out by Abdul in an official complaint to the police:
"They kept me for eight days in the police station.
'They did not tell me what my legal rights are.
"They did not allow me to see my father and brother for six days.
*They did not let me see a solicitor for nine days.
'They forced me did which understand.
'They beat me up, threatened me and said they would kill me and made me scared.
*They did not let me have any food or drink for at least 24 hours. Defence Since then he has been detained. three times at Risley remand centre.
Because the threat of deportation still hangs over him, the Abdul Azad Defence Committee is preparing an immediate response to any tation order. A meeting of 150 people in Oldham on 20 June supported a call for a picket at Risley on 7 July.
This will be just one of many such pickets up and down being co-ordinated by the Campaign Against the Immigration calling for an end to the racist and anti-democratic 1971 Act.
The new Tory government made an election commitment to action against illegal One possible form this could take is the proposed EEC legislation making it a legal offence to employ an illegal immigrant.
Black people would then not only have to face indiscriminate searches and detention without trial — they would have to take their entry papers dlong to every lob interview The nightmare of the immigration laws must be ended. These laws exist for one purpose only black. Those detained ender them are Those detained under them are "illegal immigrants' prisoners Ol lace.
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