UK Embassy Sends In French Police Against TOTAL RESPECT

BRENDA NAMIGADDE & JAMAL ALI SAÏD AFFAIR:
UNITED KINGDOM EMBASSY SENDS IN FRENCH POLICE AGAINST TOTAL RESPECT
 
Rivière-Pilote, Tuesday 1 March 2011

  

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On Saturday 26 February and again on Tuesday 1 March TOTAL RESPECT - TJENBÉ RÈD FÉDÉRATION demonstrated in front of the United Kingdom’s Embassy in Paris.
 
This Federation, rooted in the Afro-Caribbean communities fighting against all forms of racism, homophobia and AIDS, asked the British Prime Minister, David CAMERON, not to expel either the lesbian activist Brenda NAMIGADDE or fellow Ugandan Jamal ALI SAÏD, homosexual and HIV positive, back to their country of origin where their lives will be in danger.
 
In fact, Uganda is a country which is uniquely dangerous for LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bi- and trans-sexual) or PLHIV (people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) following the submission, on 25 September 2009, of a proposed law by the parliamentarian David BAHATI, which would sentence them to death.
 
On 26 January, David KATO KISUULE, a Ugandan homosexual activist, was murdered in his home, by being battered with a hammer.
 
An Embassy representative came to hold, rather coldly, a semblance of a dialogue with our delegation. Meanwhile, at the obvious request of the Embassy, a supporter of TOTAL RESPECT was seen to be arrested by the police and then held in custody for three hours for an “identity check” by SARIJ (the judicial “welcome”, research and investigation service) at 210, Rue du Fbg-St-Honoré, Paris 8th arrondissement. They also confiscated two of the association’s posters at a cost of €20.
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Contact:
David AUERBACH CHIFFRIN
+33 6 10 55 63 60 (Hexagone)
federation@tjenbered.fr

 
[2] 26 février 2011 - Mr Cameron, do not remove PLWH & gay asylum seekers back to danger in Uganda!
http://tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-89.pdf (pancarte, original) [en]
http://tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-89.jpg (pancarte, négatif) [en]
http://tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-79.jpg (devant l’ambassade du Royaume-Uni à Paris) [en]
http://tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-79.gif (devant l’ambassade du Royaume-Uni à Paris) [en]
 
[1] 26 February 2011 - The embassy of the United Kingdom refuses to guarantee the safety of Brenda Namigadde & Jamal Ali Said (In an email to Total Respect, the Embassy throws doubt on their homosexuality.) - Press release No. TRF2011-07K
http://www.tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-09.pdf [en]
http://www.tjenbered.fr/2011/20110226-00.pdf [fr]

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David AUERBACH CHIFFRIN
06 96 05 24 55 (Antilles) | 06 12 95 16 21 (Hexagone)
contact@tjenbered.fr

Secrétaire général adjoint du Collectifdom (Collectif des Antillais, Guyanais, Réunionnais & Mahorais) ;
Porte-parole suppléant et membre du comité de pilotage du Raac-sida (Réseau des associations africaines & caribéennes agissant en France dans la lutte contre le sida) ;
Porte-parole du Collectif des ÉGOM (États généraux de l’outre-mer) dans l’Hexagone ;
Rapporteur coordinateur des ÉGOM dans l’Hexagone en 2009 ;
Rapporteur de la commission Égalité & Discriminations des ÉGOM dans l’Hexagone ;
Secrétaire général de Total Respect - Tjenbé Rèd Fédération (Fédération de lutte contre les racismes, les homophobies & le sida issue des communautés afro-caribéennes) ;
Président national de Tjenbé Rèd Prévention (Association de prévention des racismes, des homophobies & du sida issue des communautés afro-caribéennes) ;
Référent de Tjenbé Rèd près la Fédération française LGBT (lesbienne, gaie, bi & trans)