Mobility Ramps

Here is a list of some suppliers of ramps for Mobility scooters. Where known, there are notes on the type of ramps. anAurora would like to know if there are any more suppliers, and also of the types of ramps that they provide.

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Dungavel Removal Centre Dossier

When Dungavel first opened in September 2001, the Home Office said it would be for those about to be deported, likely to abscond, and it was better than putting them into prison. They said Dungavel would also speed up the process of deporting illegal immigrants. Dungavel is not a prison – it was claimed – but a ‘centre', despite everyone including babies being finger printed and photographed, despite the razor wire, steel fences, guards, ID numbers, the metal detectors and the same security as a category c prison. Housed away from society, some of the first inmates were 51 refugees held in Scottish prisons under UK immigration laws.

On its third anniversary, Positive Action in Housing wishes to highlight how different the reality is from the initial p.r.

We have gathered a damning dossier of evidence that Dungavel cannot cope with the suicide culture it is creating. There is a defnite pattern emerging of asylum seekers being held for long, indefinite periods up to two years, being transferred to prison when their spirits break.

What's their suicide prevention strategy? They don't have one. There are indications of a suicide culture taking hold at Dungavel, which houses whole families after all, and the authorities cannot cope with the suicides and broken spirits they have created. They appear to be simply dumping long term detainees in Prison after they become depressed or suicidal at Dungavel.

These cases make a mockery of the Home Office's claim that Dungavel is not a prison and only holds asylum seekers for a few days. By its actions, the Home Office clearly doesn't care that asylum seekers are being detained indefinitely, in some cases for more than two years, without charge or trial or even a crime to pin on them. They have no regard for their human rights obligations which declare it unlawful to detain asylum seekers indefinitely without charge or trial is and breaches the human rights of those fleeing torture, persecution, and civil war.

This dossier documents the atrocities committed in the name of asylum & immigration policy.

We want to make sure their stories do not go undocumented or unheard. We are calling on Amnesty International and UNHCR to take up these cases and investigate human rights abuses in Scotland. We are also calling on Scottish politicians to raise these cases and speak out on a detention system that is more about systematic psychological abuse and less about immigration control.

See also: http://www.closedungavelnow.com/names_not_numbers.htm

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