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Jan. 30, only one day after I published the latest news about comrade Suwash he was deported without to get any medical treatment. Despite the protests, respectively the demand for to release him for medical treatment  by MTU and several S.K. human right, left political and labour organizations the MoJ/Immigration Office decided to send him back to Nepal, where he arrived yesterday.
Today, to protest against the deportation, MTU and several other orgainzations held a press conference in front of Seoul's Immigration Office..

Following you can read the news about Suwash's case by MWTV and IBMK:

Nepalese Migrant Worker, Suwash, Deported

Suwash, a manager of the Sung-dong branch of the Migrants' Trade Union was deported on Wednesday, January 30th. The Nepali worker spent months at the the Hwaseong Detention Center without getting proper treatment for his diabetes. Ignoring the calls of doctors and NGOs, the Ministry of Justice and the Immigration Office chose deportion instead of giving Suwash the medical treatment he required. The Ministry of Justice argued that they deported Nepalese because his diabetes had gotten better.

Aware of the deportion plans, members of the MTU sit-in struggle team blocked the gates in front of the Hwaseong Detention Center around the clock from January 29-30th. It was only when they demanded to see Suwash for an interview on the afternoon of January 30th that they were told that Suwash had been secreted out of the Center and put on a plane back to Nepal. 

Suwash had come to S. Korea on March 11th, 2003 as a trainee, becoming an undocumented worker after 3 years. He was caught by Immigration officials in a crackdown in July 2007. He had summited a petition over the violation of his human rights to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea but was turned down on the 28th of January. Protests against the deportation of Suwash are ongoing.

Immigration Office deported a migrant worker

with diabetes..
The application for temporary release was rejected without any reasons. 

The Seoul Immigration Office rejected the application for temporary release of Suwash Budathoki, a Nepalese migrant worker suffering from diabetes and complications and deported him on January 30.

After hearing the news of deportation of Suwash, members of Migrant Trade Union and about ten civic group activists have went on a sit strike in the front of Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center since January 28.

Their last meeting with Suwash was at 10 a.m on Jan 30. At that time he asked to have endoscopy, complaining about stomachache. He said that he couldn’t sleep last night because of pain.   

The Migrant Trade Union and civic group activists stayed in Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center to confirm his deportation at around 4 p.m. on Jan 30.

Suwash Budathoki had been detained in Hwaseong Immigration Detention Center for 7 months. He had suffered from diabetes before arrest and in the center; complications were developed so he asked for temporary release. The Seoul Immigration Office accepted at first, however, the Justice Ministry requested reexamination without any reasons and finally, the application was rejected.

http://211.47.69.86/~migrantsmulti/?document_srl=14487#0

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For more (but unfortunately only/nearly only in Korean) please check out:

☞ ECSRAM/이주탄압분쇄비대위

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