Defend Basil Gwatidzo! Ghanaians deported The victims

Scan page 6

SINCE the Immigration Act, 1971, force, 10,559 people have been subject tion orders under the terms of the act.

Deportation orders have increased swiftly Black people are disproportionately affected. In the first half of 1980, 142 Nigerians, 120 Ckanaiane 76 Indiane and f2 Daliotanio wash subject to abject to deportation orders, Australians, seven Canadians entering and living in Britain, particularly since the overthrow of Dr. Limmann's pro-imperialist regime last December.

Ghanaian visitors do not need an entry visa. However, the Home Office has 'discretionary powers' to deport people and to refuse entry to any commonwealth citizen.

In May several people were deported to Ghana. Eric Borley, editor of the left-wing Workers Bannbusiness. Akansa Amin was another ex‹ mple.

Others were simply refused entry such as Florence Duah, who was coming to visit her husband:

On September 25 over fifty Ghanaian visitors were deported within days of arriving in Britain. Thirty had been held in harmondsworth detention centre during that period. The others were allowed to stay at private addresses on the in the UK for the last six year, explained how he was treated. 'I had arrived back from my father's funeral, and to be given just three days to pack up and leave the UK for good was simply incredible. At Heathrow the Immigration Officers were rude and racist.

'People who had come to the airport to meet their relatives were prevented from making contact with us and it was quite strange that we could not even get however not given to middle class reactionaries who oppose the present military-populist Ghanaian regime.

A Ghanaian People's Solidarity Organisation (GHAPSO) has been set up to mobilise opposition to the deportations.

Contact: Ghanaian People's Solidarity Organisation, c/o Box E0, 234, Camden High St., London N1. since 1973.

Africans.

came into to deportawert but only eight and two