#ukborder

UK Border Police detained Arab-British academic Professor Makram Khoury Makhoul on the evening of Good Friday, April 18, 2015, upon his return from Paris to London. They interrogated him for four hours under the UK Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Regulations 2019. They subsequently confiscated his phone and computer and searched all his personal belongings and identity cards, including credit cards!

They stated that they could contact him again at any time within the next seven days.

Throughout his detention and interrogation, his eight-year-old son was with him, witnessing what his father was subjected to before his eyes until midnight on Good Friday night.

Please publish and distribute widely!

(via Martin M)

Christian Palestinian Cambridge professor held at airport under S7 Terrorism Act – suspicion of preparing terrorism – and detained up to 8hrs with young son

I've been working with Hannah Kirmes-daly on illustrating the daily life in the jungle of Calais (where about 4000 refugees are stuck on their way to the UK) We've been drawing the streets, shops and people of the ghetto.

Lately the authorities decided to reduce the size of the ghetto, about 1500 people risk to be evicted and see their homes destroyed. The UK and French governments keep harassing people, as they would disappear by themselves.  ________________

–  We, the united people of the jungle of Calais, decline the demands of the french government with regards to reducing the size of the jungle.We have decided to remain where we are and will peacefully resist the governments plans to destroy our homes.We plead with the French authories and the international communities that you understand our situation and respect our fundamental human rights. – Nous, peuple unis de la Jungle de Calais, refusont les demandes du gouvernement Français concernant la réduction de la superficie de la Jungle.Nous avons décidé de rester où nous sommes et résisterons pacifiquement aux plans gouvernementaux visant à détruire nos maisons.Nous plaidons pour que les autorités Francaises et la communauté internationale comprennent notre situation et respectent nos Droits Humains Fondamentaux.