Just released: a must-watch short film about the actions and trial of the Stansted 15, the Home Office’s brutal treatment of people, and the incredible support these peaceful protesters have received.
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2018 – a year in review
From the Windrush scandal to the ‘hostile environment’, to the hunger strikes in Yarl’s Wood and the Stansted 15 conviction – this year has witnessed new levels of oppression and resistance.
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Stansted 15 Day of Actions – International Migrants Day
Tomorrow is International Migrants Day and actions in support of the Stansted 15 are planned in cities in Britain and Ireland.
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Leading Northern Irish voices join support of ‘Stansted 15’ protestors
Leading Northern Irish politicians, human rights groups, academics, journalists and activists have expressed their “deep concern and disagreement” with Monday’s ruling against fifteen human rights activists who “acted to stop a brutal, secretive and barely legal deportation flight” at Stansted airport in March 2017.
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Protests in support of the Stansted 15
The Stansted 15 successfully grounded a mass deportation charter flight in March 2017 by locking themselves down in front of the aircraft’s wheel.
They were convicted for preventing this charter deportation flight through peaceful direct action.
There are protests in several cities to show solidarity with the Stansted 15.
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Liberty launches #CareDontShare campaign
Human rights campaign group Liberty have launched a new report, which reveals the full extent of backroom data-sharing deals between key government departments and the Home Office, focussing on health, education and policing.
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“Music gives people in detention hope to keep on going and fighting”
Usman Khalid from Music in Detention writes about the role of the arts in developing strategies around radical hospitality.
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‘Born rightless, die rightless’
Hyab Yohannes writes how the government policies which keep people in a state of ‘rightlessness’ represent the political outrage and moral regression of our time.
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Kweku Adoboli had served his time. Deporting him was unspeakably cruel
Kweku Adoboli, who had lived in the UK since he was 12 years old, was deported last week. We wrote in the Guardian about how this happened, and how his story is all too common.
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“Take courage and keep working, there are more of us than you think.”
Robert Swinfen, Treasurer and Management Committee member at Right To Remain, writes about how everyone has important skills to bring to a campaign.
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“I am proud to be a small part of the fight for migration justice.”
In the latest in our series, our management committee member Catherine Hurley talks about her experience with, and resistance to, the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies.
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Hundreds of people made to take routine 40-mile trips as part of their asylum and immigration claims
Hundreds of people are being made take routine 40-mile trips for Home Office meetings that can last as short as two minutes, as part of their asylum and immigration claims.
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- Radical Solidarity Hub, 22 May – 92% of us agree that the White Paper makes us and our community anxious, but we remain strong!
- Raggi Kotak and Ally Swadling to join Right to Remain
- Grief, Action and Resistance: Our answer to the Government’s White Paper
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 22 May – the White Paper
- Right to Remain Impact Report 2023/24!
Legal updates
- The Borders, Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill – just very disappointing
- eVisa deadline extended to 1 June 2025
- Home Office increases immigration application fees, again
- New Home Office policy seeks to bar refugees from British citizenship
- What are the different types of return?
Events
- Radical Solidarity Hub, 22 May – 92% of us agree that the White Paper makes us and our community anxious, but we remain strong!
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 22 May – the White Paper
- Newcastle; thinking with our communities – detention and beyond, Saturday 31 May
- Online Solidarity Rally for Fatou – End detention! Stop deportation!
- 14 May: Knowledge is Power online workshop, evening session – CANCELLED!
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Right to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).
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