Zimbabwean Deportations

A hunger strike by asylum seekers demanding an end to forced deportations to Zimbabwe has entered its sixth day.
Their protest has triggered calls to end deportations back to the southern African nation.

Scores of Zimbabweans are refusing food in several UK immigration detention centres.
The protest is over the lifting of a ban that prevented them being deported.
The Home Office says there 41 detained Zimbabweans on hunger strike - campaigners claim there are more than 100.
Meanwhile, politicians and church figures have joined calls for a resumption of the Home Office ban.
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Mark Oaten MP said he would be writing to the Home Secretary.
He said: "In these dreadful circumstances, we should place all deportations to Zimbabwe on hold.
"The Robert Mugabe regime is wholly unsafe and plainly has no respect for human rights."
The Right Rev Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester, said: "There is suffering and danger facing those asylum seekers being deported back to Zimbabwe.
"The current situation demands a compassionate response from our Government."
More than 15,000 Zimbabweans fled to Britain in the four years up to 2004, though only a few hundred have been granted asylum.
During the first three months of 2005, 95 Zimbabweans were deported.