Out througl back door!
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-04-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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Martin THE risk of a big US-sponsored invasion of Nicaragua has risen considerably with the news that a counter-revolutionary provisional government may be set up inside the country.
Last Friday, the ARDE movement — led from Costa VINOD Chauhan was deported last Friday (12th). Though Vinod had never attempted to go underground and hide, he was suddenly seized on Friday morning from his workplace by four people, including one uniformed police officer.
For the following two and a half hours, all enquiries as to Vinod's whereabouts, about who was responsible for his arrest, and about the possibility of seeing him were met with a stonewall of denial of any knowledge by the following bodies:
*Greater Manchester Police;
*Immigration Officers at Manchester Airport;
*Greater Manchester Police Aliens Registration Department;
*The Home Office Deportation Machinery Group;
*The Greater Manchester Special Branch.
Then at 12.45 p.m. Assistant Chief Constable John Evans revealed that Vinod was being taken to Manchester Airport for a 1.20 p.m. shuttle flight to Heathrow. This information was deliberately withheld until it was too late to act upon it in order to be able to get to see Vinod.
During all this time, Vinod could not make contact with any members of the campaign. The whole operation had obviously been clinically and cynically planned to prevent such contact by the timing of the flights. The Revd. Paul Weller called the arrest "legalised abduction"