FIRTH STANDS UP FOR DEPORTED CONGO NATIONALS
Actor COLIN FIRTH has condemned the British government for deporting 40 Congo nationals on a chartered flight today (26FEB07).
The BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY star is particularly concerned about the plight of a male nurse on the London flight, as he fears for his life on return to the republic.
Firth says, "There is good reason to believe this guy is at risk. He is certain that if he returns he will be murdered." The man in question, known only as PIERRE, fled the Democratic Republic of Congo five years ago. He was working at a military hospital on an army base when President LAURENT KABILA was assassinated, and was thrown into jail for refusing to administer lethal doses of morphine to a number of officers on the base. His brother bribed a prison guard and he escaped to Kenya before coming to England.
Firth adds of his case, "I find this incredibly painful to see how we just dismiss the most desperate people in our society. It just makes me so furious… It plays to the tabloids, to the middle-England xenophobes."
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