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Declaration against the deportation of Alabi Adebayo

Stop Deportation! Action against the deportation of Alabi Adebayo, leading member of "The Voice Africa Forum" Jena

• We demand the immediate resume of the asylum trial of Alabi Adebayo!

• Stop restricting Alabi Adebayo\\'s exile-political activities about Human Rights situation in Nigeria!

• Alabi Adebayo must not be deported to Nigeria because of his struggle for deportation stop!

• We demand the immediate stop of the collaboration of German authorities with Nigerian military-"democratic" government!

• Every deportation of people who are, like Alabi Adebayo, leading African political and Human Rights activists means violation of personal Human Rights and restriction against their exile engagement for establishing and protecting Human Rights!

• We demand deportation stop in Germany for refugees who are persectuted on political, racist and sexist reasons!

• We demand abolition of death penalty and of the repressive Nigerian government!

Also in German exile, he\\'s a member of "Oodua Peoples Congress"(OPC), a political, social and cultural organisation fighting for the rights and interests of the indigenous Yoruba-people in Nigeria and worldwide. Together with others, he\\'s leading a campaign against present Nigerian "military-democracy" and is engages himself for a nationwide programme in Nigeria, which shall help to solve the numerous deficits in Nigerian policy. By his activities in exile, he critisizes the unacceptable violence from the government in his home-country. Alabi Adebayo is an active member and one of the coordinators of "The Voice Africa Forum". As he\\'s one of the organizers of the Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in Germany, for example in Weissenfels, Halle and Jena, he has done a respectable contribution in this struggle.

The ethnic tensions in Nigeria, which have already cost hundreds of lives, are lasting, the "Bayelsa State"-massacre, the religiously motivated conflicts and murders in the North don\\'t come to an end, aswell the furious war against the "Oodua Peoples Congress"(OPC). The new president, former general Olusegun Obasanjo, gave the order "seek and destroy" against supposed members of the OPC. All this is daily life in Nigeria, while the president is pretending to the world, in his country, everything would be allright.

It\\'s well known that he has arraged with German government, in exchange for financial support, so that Germany continues deporting Nigerian activists, who are not few times expected by death in their home country. By this way, at least the oppostition in exile shall be made silent. The leopard never loses his skin; once soldier, forever soldier- and Obasanjo is notorious for his inhumanity.

Now, Adebayo Alabi is facing immediate deportation threat, the authorities want him to leave Germany until the 29th of May. He was forced to receive a Nigerian passport document from the embassy, which means a scandalous form of collaboration of German and Nigerian authorities against a Nigerian refugee. A flight for 29th of May is already booked. In this situation, Alabi Adebayo needs urgent support.

I support the campaign for asylum and deportation stop of Alabi Adebayo and ask You to arrange a new asylum trial for him, as I think that this trial is of general and decisive importance for all Nigerian asylum seekers.

Please sign this letter and send/fax it to the Minister of Inner Affairs of Sachsen Anhalt and to the National German asylum authority:

Innenministerium des Landes Sachsen Anhalt, Halberstädter Strasse 2, 39112 Magdeburg, tel.: 0391/5675516, fax: 0391/5675520

Bundesamt für die Anerkennung ausländischer Flüchtlinge, Aussenstelle Halberstadt, Friedrich-List-Strasse 3, 38820 Halberstadt, tel.: 03941/676-0, fax: 03941/676-199

Please send a copy of Your letter to:Internationaler Menschenrechtsverein Bremen e.V., Wachmannstr. 81, 28207 Bremen, tel.: 0421/5577093, fax: 0421/5577094, e-mail: mail@humanrights.de