Alert Update: Hicham Yezza’s deportation cancelled, immigration case to be reviewed 10 June 2008 Hicham Yezza’s scheduled deportation for 1 June 2008 was cancelled and his immigration case is now with the Home Office’s legal advisers. ----------------------------------------------------- Islamic Human Rights Commission ----------------------------------------------------- 10 June 2008 Alert Update: Hicham Yezza’s deportation cancelled, immigration case to be reviewed Summary After widespread campaign support, Hicham Yezza’s deportation for 1 June 2008 has been cancelled, and his immigration case is now being reviewed. On 4 June, Mr Yezza’s solicitor, David Smith of Cartwright King of Nottingham, gave this statement regarding the immigration case: “Following the issue of our client’s Judicial review last Friday, the case is now with the Home Office’s legal advisers (the Treasury Solicitor), to whom we have put detailed representations about certain aspects of the case. We very much hope that this will shortly lead to our client’s release, if necessary on restrictions, while the case is thoroughly and properly reviewed at the most senior level. We look forward to proper and lawful decisions being taken without delay, failing which we will be making urgent applications to the High Court for appropriate short and long term remedies.” Though Mr Yezza’s deportation has been successfully cancelled, he is still in detention and much campaign work remains in his case. For further information regarding possible action campaigners may choose to take to support his case, please visit*: http://freehichamyezza.wordpress.com/what-can-we-do/ Background Hicham Yezza, a former PhD student and current member of staff at the University of Nottingham faced deportation to Algeria on 1 June 2008. He was arrested unjustly along with another student Rizwaan Sabir under the Terrorism Act 2000 on 14 May 2008 after they were found to be in possession of an Al Qaeda manual, downloaded by Sabir as part of his Ph D research and emailed to Yezza for printing because Sabir could not afford to print it himself. The manual was downloaded from a US government website and is available Amazon.com. Although, both were released without charge six days later, Yezza was rearrested and charged under immigration legislation. Following his re-arrest and scheduled deportation, many students, lecturers and supporters mobilized a campaign in response to protest against restricting academic freedom. For further details to the case, please visit: http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=3389, http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=3388 and http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=3387 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information, please contact the office on the numbers or email below: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IHRC is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations Please help IHRC by visiting http://www.ihrc.org.uk/catalog and making a donation or buying an item from our on-line store. If you want to subscribe to the IHRC list please send an email to subscribe@ihrc.org If you want to unsubscribe from the IHRC list please send an email from your subscribed email address to unsubscribe@ihrc.org *IHRC is not responsible for the content of external websites, nor endorses them by providing their link. If you are reusing this alert, please cite the source. For more information, please contact the office on the numbers or email below. “And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.” Holy Qur’an: Chapter 4, Verse 75 Join the Struggle for Justice. Join IHRC. Islamic Human Rights Commission PO Box 598 Wembley HA9 7XH United Kingdom Telephone (+44) 20 8904 4222 Fax (+44) 20 8904 5183 Email: info@ihrc.org Web: www.ihrc.org Recommend this article to a friend Your name: Your friend's email address: