The British High Court went on to rule that the policy, which was introduced back in 2007 meant that the people affected had little or no notice of removal. They are deprived of access to any justice. Although this policy first came out in 2007 it was just recently expended this year.

Apparently, the Border Agency’s policy allows only 72 hours notice of removal. However, this can be reduce to little or none for people in certain categories. For example, time can be reduced for people that are believed to be at risk of self-harm or unaccompanied children.

This case was brought before the court by Medical Justice. This is a body that provides independent medical and legal advice to detainees in emigration removal centers. The group said that the policy was being used to swoop late at night and escort people to flights, leaving only a few hours later. This was, of course, depriving people of the ability to contact lawyers and launch a last attempt to stay in the country.

The Home Office went on to argued that its policy was sufficiently flexible to ensure that there were no human rights breaches. All detainees are given as much notice as possible. However, Judge Justice Sillber rejected that argument. He said that the policy is unlawful and must be quashed.

A spokesman for the Home Office did go on to say that they were very disappointed with the verdict. Of course, the Home Office is going to appeal against it.

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Vincent Onwubiko came to the UK back in 1994, and has an 11-year-old daughter. Mr Onwubiko claims that if he is sent back to Nigeria now, he will be dead within weeks. Last night, speaking from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Center, he said that the government has given him three months of painkillers for his return to Nigeria and told him to get on with it. However, he says that he needs proper care. Sending him back to Nigeria is the same as giving him a death sentence.

Mr Onwubiko said that his legal case is still before the courts and that he has been denied proper health care. Since living in Britain, Mr Onwubiko has represented the country at the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1995 and 1997. He also represented Britain at the World Champion of Champions competition in Birmingham in 1996. He was selected for the Great Britain team at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta but was unable to attend.

However, in 2007, Mr Onwubiko was sentenced to five months in prison for driving while disqualified after twice being convicted of careless driving in his specially adapted car. One time he apparently ran through a red light. Due to UK laws, an emigrant who commits a serious criminal offense is subject to automatic deportation.

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Catherina Stihler said that the teenager had sought to build a new life for herself in Scotland after fleeing her homeland where her parents were killed. She went on to say that she had been adopted by a couple in Glasgow but now faces some possible deportation charges, because UK authorities are questioning her age.

The Scottish MEP appealed to the commission to look into the case on humanitarian grounds. She asked the executive’s president, Jose Manuel Barroso, what he could do to protect the girl and her fundamental rights.

The Socialist deputy has already said that the case has been raised by civil society and humanitarian groups. Catherina said that she feels the girl’s future should be in Scotland. She has forwarded all of the information on the case to the commission and will await its response.

Stihler also said that she had finally decided to act after being asked by children at a primary school to sign a petition asking for the girl to be allowed to stay. Barroso said that, while he was unaware of this one case, the whole thing does raise a lot of concern. He went on to say that he wants to express solidarity with anyone whose human rights have or may be violated.

Problems with the UK’s emigration system are known all over Europe. However, in a fight to keep as many people out of the UK as they possibly can, they have now caused this one case to go before the European Commission. It just proves that messing with a child’s human rights is not something that people are prepared to put up with.

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Kenyan police have been attempting to try to identify those with terrorist links after violent clashes marred the first protest rally organised for January 16th. In that incident two people died and six officers were injured with police making some 400 arrests. The central business district of Nairobi was the scene of confrontations and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage was reported as the demonstration turned ugly.

Local shop traders joined in support of Kenyan police, as one stage hurling rocks back at the madding crowd. Security personnel in full riot gear soon joined the fray and searched through the mainly Somali residential area of Eastleigh which is known to locals as Little Mogadishu. Officers were searching for people with documented ties to the Al-Shabaab group – a Somali organisation which is seeking the overthrow on the government inside the northern neighbour of Kenya.

Up to sixteen members of the Transitional Federal Government from Somalia were detained by Kenyan police forces. Nairobi police chiefs have vowed to weed out the militant element inside the city which has been accused of trying to destroy both countries from within.

Protest March organisers have claimed that Kenyan authorities have been systematically targeting Muslim neighbourhoods and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has expressed concerns that the police raids may be in breach of civil liberties whereby a specific faith cannot be targeted.

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According to a Jamaican newspaper, measures are being ramped up in that country to ensure that should al-Faisal be returned that he would be monitored around the clock by a special team of security officers. The Gleaner newspaper reports on a police insider who claimed online that Sheikh al-Faisal would face extra security measures on arrival home in the island nation.

Meanwhile, Otieno Kajwang, the Kenyan Immigration Minister called on both the United States and Britain to allow free transit through their airports for al-Faisal. This plea was effectively made a necessity given that travel to Jamaica must go via either the UK or US. Kajwang claimed that Kenyan Airways, the national carrier, could potentially fly the cleric back to his homeland but that this would require a connection at Britain’s Gatwick Airport. However, the UK has repeatedly stated that it will refuse al-Faisal any access to its ports after his serving of a four-year prison term in Britain for inciting racial hatred and violence.

The Qatari government has also come forward with an additional option according to Kajwang which would see al-Faisal allowed to make a connection at the capital Doha’s airport. Again though, this has presented issues as the ongoing sector would see travel to Miami in the US where authorities also have no desire to host the Sheikh.

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The hook-handed Hamza was a former imam at North London’s Finsbury Park Mosque and presently is serving a jail term for stirring racial hatred and inciting murder. He is in the sixth year of a seven year sentence and upon his release he is set to be extradited to the United States. Hamza is fighting the extradition which he claims is a clear breach of international human rights. He is wanted in the US in relation to his role in establishing a terrorist training camp with al-Qaeda links.

Hamza’s latest actions drew derision from Mr Justice Mitting who claimed that it was merely the latest of numerous attempts to remain in the UK. Labeling the appeal as a protracted form of guerilla warfare Justice Mitting did acknowledge that such attempts venture into a myriad of legal waters which mean the appeal could go either way. Justice Mitting also added that putting off the appeal is not an option for the court but warned that if Hamza was deemed stateless then the case would be closed.

The 51-year-old Hamza was born in Egypt but denies holding an Egyptian passport, lending weight to the argument that he would become stateless should British authorities strip him of his citizenship. The first attempt to deny him his citizenship was in 2003 after an alleged bigamous marriage although that was suspended the following year after he was arrested.

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The Muslim-cleric, originally born in Jamaica, has been forced from Kenya although his exact location is still unclear.  He was detained by Kenyan authorities last week who supposedly gave him a range of options and according to officials he chose the tiny western nation of Gambia as his next destination. This, however, has been disputed by some inside Gambia itself, with officials claiming that any such attempt would be turned back on arrival.

Abdullah al-Faisal has a history of preaching racial hatred and has already served a four-year prison term in Britain for his role in ordering the murders of both Jews and Hindus. The notorious Abdullah al-Faisal arrived in the UK some 26 years ago after he was born in the Jamaican suburb of St James as Trevor William Forrest. In the years leading up to his arrest Abdullah al-Faisal was known to travel the length and breadth of Britain preaching for his racially motivated audience to take up violent action against not just Hindus and Jews but also Westerners in general.

Deported upon his release from jail by immigration authorities in the UK he travelled to South Africa where he again preached his radical views. From there he was believed to have made his way up land through Mozambique and Tanzania before settling in Kenya.

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The highest French court made the ruling in the case of an Afghani man, finding that when he was arrested in Calais and then attempted to be sent home his human rights were infringed. The move has caused condemnation on this side of the channel with Migrationwatch UK head Sir Andrew Green saying the ruling would effectively see more migrants waved on to Britain. The court’s decision means that asylum seekers must therefore be offered the opportunity for applying to remain in France before any form of deportation can be considered. The French have stated in the past that this is something that they are against, leaving the UK as an increasingly easier option.

The case in point concerns Sultan Khali who was facing attempts at forced repatriation after his arrest at the notorious jungle migrant camp. He appealed for asylum status in France but this was rejected because he acknowledged that his sole intention in travelling to Calais was to enter the UK. Now this has been overturned, meaning that France may now by law be unable to repatriate any UK-bound migrant that makes an asylum claim to remain in France, raising the question of just where they will go.

The ruling also contradicts statements made last week by the French government that they wished to follow the lead of British immigration authorities who deport some 1,000 illegal immigrants each year back to Afghanistan.

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