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“Detention is a filing cabinet for human beings”: Parliamentary Meeting on Immigration Detention

November 16, 2017

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Earlier today MPs and Peers held a parliamentary meeting on immigration detention, hearing from experts about the hazardous effects of detention, and why urgent and… Read more »

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General election 2017: a chance to push immigration detention to the top of the agenda

May 9, 2017

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Mabel is waiting to find out if, today, she will finally find freedom. If she will get to see her daughter. If the punitive deprivation… Read more »

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Are refugees welcome in Britain?

April 26, 2017

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A new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees has highlighted serious concerns about the difficulties faced by refugees in settling in the… Read more »

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Brutality at Brook House highlights urgency behind this week’s detention debate

March 17, 2017

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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

March 10, 2017

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“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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The Bill becomes an Act: what’s been won, and what’s been lost

May 13, 2016

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By Lisa Matthews, coordinator at Right to Remain. Yesterday (12 May 2016), the Immigration Bill 2015-16 received Royal Assent, which means it now becomes the… Read more »

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No one left behind: partial progress on detention campaigning, but not for all

March 16, 2016

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Last night, in the Immigration Bill debate in the House of Lords, peers voted by 187 to 170 in favour of Lord Ramsbotham’s amendment on… Read more »

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Immigration Bill 2015: a very grey cloud, but with faint silver linings?

December 2, 2015

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Yesterday, the 2015 Immigration Bill reached the report stage, at which proposed amendments were debated and voted on. The Bill Let’s start with something simple.… Read more »

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Whose ‘side’ are you on? A government threatened by solidarity

October 6, 2015

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“What I’m proposing is a deal – the fewer people there are who wrongly claim asylum in Britain, the more generous we can be in… Read more »

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Not one dissenting voice … apart from James Brokenshire

September 11, 2015

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Yesterday, parliament debated immigration detention.  Specifically, the motion: ‘That this House supports the recommendations of the report of the Joint Inquiry by the All Party… Read more »

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Don your cape and become a crusader for justice: Legal Aid Team video

April 20, 2015

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The Legal Aid Team are superheros defending our rights and access to justice for everyone, not just the rich! But they are facing a terrible… Read more »

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Seize the moment: tell your future MP it’s Time4aTimeLimit on detention

April 14, 2015

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Manifestos being launched and pored over for signs of hope or dismay, hustings a-go-go, politicians in awkward photo-shoots – it can mean only one thing. … Read more »

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