User talk:Pparekh1234

I am writing to you today in regards to one of the resident here in Yarlâ€™s Wood Detention Centre. This lady was a tall African lady of a very slim build up and generally keeps so quite that no one would notice her presence anywhere around. By just looking at her one can genuinely understand that she was living here under severe depression at the same time she was pregnant too. Her name is Edith and she is from Coitivoire- Africa. She resided here in the Dove Unit in room number 102. Her roommate is a Chinese young lady. Edith was around seven months pregnant, we have always seen her so depressed and generally avoiding her food too. She didnâ€™t have many friends and she preferred to talk to only few of the residents around. Some used to give her food of her liking on the table sometimes and some used to pass on some food in her room too since she was pregnant. I am now bringing your attention on the Monday the 19 th November 2012. She was seen on the corridor at around 3:15pm. Soon after two officers (Jason and Tracy) went in her room. From that time onwards she started to shout in the room (that she doesnâ€™t want to go, please please, God Save me, Oh God, Oh God and some unclear messages too) some of usâ€™ doors were open that time and we went out in the corridor to see what was going on in Room 102. But Room 102 was locked from inside and there was one person standing outside the room. After a while we saw both the officers (Jason and Tracy) going out of her room. We were clueless about what was going on with Edith? We were confused about whether she was going through labor pain or something wrong had happened to her. Helplessly, all we could do was to guess about her situation. Again, after half an hour or so we saw almost six officers storming towards Edith's room. Among them there were four male officers and two female officers were there too, one of the lady officers had a camera in her hands. This time officers made sure that all the residentâ€™s doors were kept close and no one can see what actions they were taking. Soon after they entered in Edith's room, Edith again started to cry loudly and shout for help. Our doors were still kept closed but we can clearly hear Edith's loud voice. We were all panicking; we didn't know what to do. We were all scared and full of fears. Suddenly, I decided to go out and ask what was going on with Edith. Soon I opened the door I saw all the fire doors were shut from one end to another end and one of the officers was out asking me and other ladies to go back to our rooms telling that everything is ok. Wherein we all knew that nothing was ok. I fearfully went back in my room where we were all crying but we were all helpless. Inhumanly, one of the women among us was being treated like a lifeless piece of luggage to be removed from one place to another place and all we could do was to sit and wait to see what is happening and may be later on cry over it. If any of us was even trying to get out of our rooms to see what was going on? We were told by the officers to get in our rooms. Edith was shouting and screaming that she didnâ€™t want to go, she needs help, she was shouting for God's help. Not only she but we were all helpless. My roommate and one of the old ladies saw from the corridor fire doors that Edith was being filmed while taken away from the detention center. We were all surprised that why Edith was not shouting anymore? She was certainly so quite suddenly. She was pregnant so it is harmful for her to be removed from detention center through sedation and if she was gaged then too it was so harmful, disgraceful and inhuman to behave with a woman who is pregnant. It was almost dinner time, all the residents living at the upper level of the building were so unaware about the happening at the ground floor and many of us were locked from all over the place. This is not only an unexpected /unwanted behavior to a pregnant woman but also an emotional and mental torture to all women living here in the detention center at Yarl's Wood. We all need help. Help because many of us are kept here on silly reasons, many of us are not getting bails on silly grounds, many of us are here even though we have valid visas, many of us are here just because of UKBA's inefficient ways of working, many of us are here because of solicitor's inhuman and greedy actions. Many of us are left here with no option but to apply for asylum in order to get out of this place in which many of us don't even know what the general grounds to apply for asylum are. Many of us are highly educated women who have bright future waiting ahead for them but they are in a serious trouble for life. Many of us belong to an orthodox and conservative society where just getting in this type of problem could ruin their and their familyâ€™s reputation and respect in society for life. If we women are the pillar of the society then we have to say regretfully that UKBA is not treating us women from many countries with full respect here. There are many good words they show on the papers but when it comes to action in reality UKBA is a reason for so many womenâ€™s ruined lives. I would request some NGOs to take some serious actions against UKBA's disgraceful and inhuman actions with women. Please WE ALL NEED HELP. SO PLEASE DO THE NEEDFULL. Delete ReplyReply ForwardMovePrint Actions NextPrevious