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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Victory as Home Office scraps secret data-sharing deal
On Monday the Home Office announced that it would fully scrap a secret arrangement that allowed it to access patient’s NHS data without their permission.
This is an important victory against the ‘hostile environment’.
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“This is when I woke to the force of solidarity community campaigning.”
Tienga Ngale is co-chair of the Right to Remain management committee. Here he writes about how the support he has given to and received from different communities kept him going through his most difficult situations.
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- Solidarity and safety against far-right violence
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- POSTPONED! 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
Legal updates
- The BEL v FCDO Judgment: A Victory in Principle
- Artificially Intelligent, Genuinely Harmful: AI and Age Assessments in the UK Asylum System
- Toolkit update: Failure to travel and asylum support
- Targeting Dignity and Survival: The Reality Behind the Government’s clampdown on “Illegal Working”
- UK-France ‘One In, One Out’ Immigration Policy: A Flawed Fix for a Complex Crisis
Events
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 12 August – staying safe amidst far-right violence
- POSTPONED! 31 July – Liverpool Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 21 July: Knowledge is Power online workshop
- 22 July – Manchester Solidarity Session; detention & enforcement
- 17 July: From Detention to Defiance – National Solidarity Launch meeting
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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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