Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-12-Speech-1-056"
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"en.20060612.14.1-056"2
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"Mr President, I rise to make a plea on behalf of one of my constituents in the Shetland Isles in Scotland, against the inhumane actions of the United Kingdom Government. Sakchai Makow is a new Scot and a new Shetlander. He is originally from Thailand but grew up in the Shetlands. He speaks little Thai and has no friends or family left in Thailand.
In 2004 he committed the serious crime of wilful fire-raising. He went to jail, served his time, repaid his debt to society and was welcomed back into the Shetland community with open arms. Following a dawn raid, in which he was snatched from his home in Shetland, he is now in a high-security English jail under threat of deportation. This is largely because the United Kingdom Home Office is making a poorly-advised bid to crack down on alleged illegal immigrants with criminal records, mainly in order to look tough for the tabloid media, based in South-East England.
I consider that Sakchai Makow’s human rights have been infringed solely to play to an agenda which is unhealthy, undemocratic and, dare I say it, un-European.
I will be raising these breaches of human rights with the EU authorities and hope that you, Mr President, as a friend of Scotland and of human rights, will support us. Sakchai is a new Scot and a new Shetlander. A London-based minister should not be able to throw him out of the country just to look tough."@en1
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