Khethiwe, a Zimbabwean Asylum Seeker, a keynote speaker at the City of Sanctuary Launch this June where she spoke eloquently about what sanctuary meant to her as an asylum seeker in Bristol is fighting deportation to her homeland Zimbabwe.

Khethiwe was detained yesterday at Trinity Police Station, and we believe she is now on her way to Yarls Wood Detention Centre. She has removal directions set to remove her to Zimbabwe next Thursday 29th at 8pm.

Tomorrow there is a campaign group gathering at 12.30pm on College Green and we very much hope that you will be able to come along and support the meeting.

Please also circulate to anyone you know who would like to support the challenge to her removal. Whilst we cannot disclose details of her case, please know that it would be extremely dangerous for Khethiwe to return to Zimbabwe.

Khethiwe is one of our long-standing members of the Bristol Refugee Rights Welcome Centre. She is originally from Zimbabwe and made her home in Bristol and has been in the UK for 10 years.

For further information and to follow the campaign, go to http://khethiwemuststay.posterous.com

She is well known to many different groups in Bristol and was a keynote speaker at the launch of Bristol City of Sanctuary on the 22nd June 2011.
If you are able, please come to the campaign meeting and if you are willing to speak we expect HTV to be there who are following the case all week and filmed the campaign meeting this afternoon here at the Pierian Centre. Please contact Forward, copied in, about that.

Your support in this real situation for Bristol to demonstrate that we really are a City of Sanctuary!