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Zimbabwe embassy in London under siege from British Police
12 Apr 2016 at 11:52hrs | Views
British police are set to raid a 16 year old Zimbabwean boy at the Zimbabwean embassy in London. Officers are currently camped outside the building at The Strand, since Sunday after the boy (name withheld), ran into the Zimbabwean embassy at the weekend in what he says is his fleeing UK social workers preventing him from travelling back to Zimbabwe.
In a public video (below), the boy narrates what he says is his ordeal at present and mentions he will not leave the consulate until they are given free passage to go to the airport to return to Harare.
There will be a demonstration at Zimbabwe embassy, Monday at 9am to prevent Social Services from taking the boy away by force, a source said.
On Tuesday the Zimbabwean Teen, who was due to appear in the Royal Court of Justice in London, went on the run and sought refugee at the Zimbabwean embassy, which is just 5 minutes walk away from the court.
He says, "two Indian support workers brought me to the court. We arrived early and they wanted me to meet with my solicitor on record. I refused since I already told the court I no longer want him to represent me. I said I wanted to meet with my mother first. I went to the toilet and when I saw the opportunity, I ran for my life. I arrived at the Zimbabwean embassy alone.
When asked how he had ended up in the mental health hospital in Norwich, the teen explained, "I was hunger striking to protest against my detainment in the UK. I had been in the country for 8 months with no school, no friends, no social life and no contact to family. I had been coerced by the UK social services to not speak with my family. I had also been coerced to lie about being gay or bisexual. My lawyer and my social worker had also coerced me to lie and exaggerate about the abuse I had suffered in the care of my mother.
When I realized that these people don't give a sh.. about me and I had tried everything I could think of to get back to my family, I thought to stop eating. Instead of discharging me from their social care as per my wishes or taking me to a normal hospital and forcing me to eat, they instead locked me up in a glorified juvenile prison called Huntercombe Mental Health hospital Norwich where they got me waked up trying to defend myself from them injecting me with unidentified medicine and then they would end up injecting me all the same apparently to calm me down from all the hype of trying to defend myself.
When I realized that they did not care about me or my health, I gave up hunger striking. But they still insisted on keeping me in the mental health hospital because they claimed I was resisting medication and being aggressive when resisting 6-8 men holding me down to inject me against my wishes and feelings".
In this interview, the teen talked about why he has been in care, why he ran away, what has happened since then and what his fears and wishes are. The interview, which was conducted yesterday via skype, as mother and son were at the Zimbabwean embassy in London were they sought refugee since Tuesday.
In a public video (below), the boy narrates what he says is his ordeal at present and mentions he will not leave the consulate until they are given free passage to go to the airport to return to Harare.
There will be a demonstration at Zimbabwe embassy, Monday at 9am to prevent Social Services from taking the boy away by force, a source said.
On Tuesday the Zimbabwean Teen, who was due to appear in the Royal Court of Justice in London, went on the run and sought refugee at the Zimbabwean embassy, which is just 5 minutes walk away from the court.
He says, "two Indian support workers brought me to the court. We arrived early and they wanted me to meet with my solicitor on record. I refused since I already told the court I no longer want him to represent me. I said I wanted to meet with my mother first. I went to the toilet and when I saw the opportunity, I ran for my life. I arrived at the Zimbabwean embassy alone.
When asked how he had ended up in the mental health hospital in Norwich, the teen explained, "I was hunger striking to protest against my detainment in the UK. I had been in the country for 8 months with no school, no friends, no social life and no contact to family. I had been coerced by the UK social services to not speak with my family. I had also been coerced to lie about being gay or bisexual. My lawyer and my social worker had also coerced me to lie and exaggerate about the abuse I had suffered in the care of my mother.
When I realized that these people don't give a sh.. about me and I had tried everything I could think of to get back to my family, I thought to stop eating. Instead of discharging me from their social care as per my wishes or taking me to a normal hospital and forcing me to eat, they instead locked me up in a glorified juvenile prison called Huntercombe Mental Health hospital Norwich where they got me waked up trying to defend myself from them injecting me with unidentified medicine and then they would end up injecting me all the same apparently to calm me down from all the hype of trying to defend myself.
When I realized that they did not care about me or my health, I gave up hunger striking. But they still insisted on keeping me in the mental health hospital because they claimed I was resisting medication and being aggressive when resisting 6-8 men holding me down to inject me against my wishes and feelings".
In this interview, the teen talked about why he has been in care, why he ran away, what has happened since then and what his fears and wishes are. The interview, which was conducted yesterday via skype, as mother and son were at the Zimbabwean embassy in London were they sought refugee since Tuesday.
Source - Online
