Bernard
Channel: outsidefilmprojects
Date: 2012-07-16

Bernard Mboueyeu is a national of Cameroon and a resident of Sheffield where he lives with his family. He is currently in immigration detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 16th July 2012 on EasyJet flight U2431, @ 06:00 hrs from London/Luton to Paris Charles de Gaulle for onward transit on Air France flight AF900 from Paris Charles de Gaulle 13:50 hrs, to Yaounde, Cameroon.

Bernard fled Cameroon in 2007 after he was set upon by President Biya's security forces, for taking photographs of students being brutally attacked during protests in 2006 - he was working for a newspaper in southern Cameroon at the time. He was arrested, stripped naked, beaten up and detained for forty days. He was further persecuted by the authorities for supporting a political group opposed to the brutal ruling regime.

Bernard came to the UK in 2007 and married Sheffield woman, Sharon, a charity worker, in 2010. Sharon and Bernard have set up home in Wincobank. Whilst in Sheffield, Bernard has played a significant role in the local community as a volunteer with the Royal Society for the Blind, Aspire, Rainbow End charity shop. Bernard has also been involved with raising money for different charities.

Despite their marriage, the Home Office have demanded Bernard return to Cameroon to apply for a spouse's visa. If Bernard returns to Cameroon he could be detained, face torture, or locked up indefinitely and may never return to his wife Sharon in Sheffield.

Bernard has offered to return voluntarily to Cameroon if the Home Office guarantees his safety but the Home Office have refused to make that guarantee.

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http://www.no-deportations.org.uk/Media-1-2012/BernardMboueyeu.html