Reporting to the Home Office: exploring connections to detention and solidarity
This is a guest post by Andrew Burridge, independent researcher and former volunteer with Bristol Signing Support.
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Windows onto Morton Hall: recent demonstration and today’s inspection report
Image from Unlocking Detention 2016, submitted by René Cassin This morning, the report of the unannounced inspection of Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire, has… Read more »
Read moreBrutality at Brook House highlights urgency behind this week’s detention debate
An impassioned and powerful debate on detention took place amongst MPs at Westminster Hall on Tuesday. The debate followed harrowing reports that emerged from Brook… Read more »
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Immigration detention has no place in a happy, healthy society
“This experience of the detention centre eliminated all my self-confidence and made me feel humiliated and like a slave. Even after they let me go,… Read more »
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This International Womens Day, imagine a future without detention
Women for Refugee Women has spent over three years researching the condition of asylum-seeking women in the UK and listening to their experiences. Earlier this… Read more »
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Manchester, 20 Feb: One day, these walls must fall
On Monday 20 February as part of the One Day Without Us national day of migrant solidarity, over 100 people gathered in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens… Read more »
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Imagine one day without us. Imagine one day without detention centres.
“At 5 am I wake up sat on my bed and staring outside the window looking at the gods, praying that G4S will not come… Read more »
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Defining torture, and detaining survivors
In 2001, Parliament introduced the Detention Centre Rules for the “regulation and management” of immigration detention centres. Rules 34 and 35 introduced mechanisms to try and… Read more »
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Bringing Solidarity Home: These Walls Must Fall
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain @MariennaPW Click here to read the article in full EXTRACT: Coming home, it’s strange trying to figure out… Read more »
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Thousands gather to demand #ShutDownYarlsWood and #EndDetentionNow!
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault The walls of Yarl’s Wood were surrounded by unprecedented numbers on Saturday… Read more »
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“We are the people who can change everything”: immigration detention has met its match
Our double-bill of Manchester detention workshops seemed to, inadvertently, involve very inauspicious timings. Our first workshop in the series, on preparing in case of immigration… Read more »
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Signing support: lessons from Manchester
Yesterday on the blog, we wrote about the importance of preparing in case of being detained, and the different things you can think about and get ready in case the worst happens to you. One of the most important aspects of this is having a system in place so that if you are detained, people know straight away and start taking action for you.
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