Kwame Toure detained at Heathrow (1)

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Kwame Toure detained at Heathrow
artdoc July=1994

African-American Civil rights activist, Kwame Toure, was detained
at Heathrow airport by immigration officials at the beginning of
April. He was travelling from New York to Kampala, Uganda as a
member of the US delegation to the Seventh Pan-African Congress
when he was held at Heathrow during a change-over in his flight.
He was released from detention following protests from other
members of his delegation and interventions by the Ugandan High
Commission and Labour MP, Paul Boateng. Kwame Toure was the
subject of an exclusion order when he attempted to speak in
Britain in 1984. Caribbean Times 5.4.94.

Statewatch, vol 4 no 3, May-June 1994

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