Britain: Demand the release of Hicham Yezza

A further application has been lodged by his solicitors, Cartwright King, calling for his release from detention while his case is reconsidered.

David Smith, of Cartwright King, said, We hope and trust that the Home Office will now release Mr. Yezza and reconsider his case properly and in accordance with the law; we will proceed vigorously with the High Court action unless they agree to do so.

Immediately following the cancellation of his deportation order, after more than two weeks in detention, Yezza was told on May 31 that he was to be moved from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre to a detention centre in Dover. Yezza is refusing to be moved yet again and issued the following statement as soon as he was told.

I have just been informed that I am to be moved to a detention centre in Dover. This would be the fifth movement in nine days and is therefore unacceptable. It is deeply saddening for both myself and my visitors; it is also a great source of distress at this time and an affront to human dignity and my human right to be treated with respect and consideration. I am thus categorically refusing to go. I am not a piece of luggage but a human being, and deserve to be treated as such.