Zims demonstrate in London

LONDON - Scores of Zimbabweans last week demonstrated outside the offices of the Conservative and Labour Party offices in Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester against the deportations of thousands of failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe from Britain.
The demonstrations were organised by the United

Network for Detained Zimbabweans (UNDZ). The organisation’s spokesman, Noble Sibanda, said the demonstrators handed over petitions voicing their concern over ‘the contradictions which we continue to find in Tony Blair’s government over the Zimbabwe crisis’.
“Nobody wants to be here any longer than necessary. Things are not yet okay in Zimbabwe and the British government knows that and that is why Zimbabwe is still under the targeted sanctions,” said Sibanda. “As long as they haven’t removed those sanctions then it means people are still being trampled on. We want the British government to work with us on this issue and many others. They should not run ahead of us but work with us.”
In a recent court ruling, the British government won the right to deport thousands of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers but lawyers have mounted a legal challenge. – Own correspondent

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