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Joint letter to stop accommodation centres

We were very happy recently to add our collective name to the joint inter-agency letter, co-ordinated by Asylum Matters, calling on the Home Secretary and the Defence Secretary to to [...]

By |August 23rd, 2022|Comments Off on Joint letter to stop accommodation centres

Keep Campsfield Closed

As we blogged last month, we deplore the decision of the government to re-open the Campsfield immigration centre in Kidlington, north of Oxford. The Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed has [...]

By |August 22nd, 2022|Comments Off on Keep Campsfield Closed

There is an alternative

One of our members, Ben and Jerry's, recently added a new blog post on their site. It is an excellent post and well worth a read. It is focussed on [...]

By |August 16th, 2022|Comments Off on There is an alternative

Linton camp not going ahead

At our last members' meeting we heard from the Linton-on-Ouse Action Group on their campaign to stop the opening of a new accommodation centre for people seeking asylum at RAF [...]

By |August 12th, 2022|Comments Off on Linton camp not going ahead

Cross-Party call to re-consider Rwanda scheme

A group of MPs and Peers has called on the Home Secretary to “re-consider” the plan to send migrants to Rwanda. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) wrote to [...]

By |August 1st, 2022|Comments Off on Cross-Party call to re-consider Rwanda scheme

Hassockfield Legal Challenge

Along with many people, our members were closely following the legal challenge mounted by Women for Refugee Women (WfRW) that women detained in the Hassockfield Detention Centre should be able [...]

By |July 29th, 2022|Comments Off on Hassockfield Legal Challenge

Campaigners deplore decision to re-open Campsfield

Oxford anti-detention campaigners have denounced the government announcement yesterday that it intends to redevelop and reopen Campsfield immigration detention centre in Kidlington north of Oxford. They argue that: It’s cruel [...]

By |July 13th, 2022|Comments Off on Campaigners deplore decision to re-open Campsfield

No Pride In Detention

This blog post comes from one of our members - Rainbow Migration It’s Pride Month and people are rightly celebrating how far LGBTQI+ rights have come in the UK. But [...]

By |June 22nd, 2022|Comments Off on No Pride In Detention

Time-served prisoners

When the last Immigration Bill was going through Parliament, I remember that one of the key government arguments against a time limit for immigration detention was their contention that such [...]

By |June 14th, 2022|Comments Off on Time-served prisoners

Short-term Holding Facilities in Northern France

Recently our Detention Forum members agreed our new policy paper on the use of the Short-term Holding Facilities in Northern France. This blog post draws out our key messages from [...]

By |May 26th, 2022|Comments Off on Short-term Holding Facilities in Northern France
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