Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Woman 'assaulted' by UK security guards during forced removal / Independent, 30 June 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-assaulted-by-uk-security-guards-during-forced-removal-856897.html
Robert Verkaik
"The Government is investigating claims that a 26-year-old asylum-seeker from Cameroon was so badly assaulted during her forced removal on a British Airways flight that she has to use a wheelchair. Stephanie Toumi claims that British security guards kicked her in the back of the leg and held her head down for two hours on a flight from Heathrow to Brussels earlier this month. Her injuries were so serious that Belgian immigration officials refused to allow the escort team to fly her on to Cameroon, claims Ms Toumi, who fled her home in March after being tortured and abused by a village chief."