Katie Close Consultant Parliamentary Officer Detention Action On Monday the House of Lords debated the amendment to introduce a time limit at Committee stage of the Bill. Baroness Hamwee introduced the amendment with her usual eloquence and [...]
Detention Forum was really keen to offer our support to the recent inter-agency letter to the Immigration Minister, Chris Philp MP. Along with 31 other organisations that support and advocate for people going through immigration detention, we wanted [...]
Anna Pincus Director, Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group During the time of Covid-19, fear has felt corrosive. Loss of agency has been a defining characteristic of life. For those in detention, total loss of freedom is the norm [...]
After the summer recess, the Immigration Bill is due to re-appear in the House of Lords next week. After the disappointment of seeing the Time Limit amendment fail to win a majority in the House of Commons, we [...]
Jerome Phelps Strategy and advocacy consultant, and former Director of International Detention Coalition and Detention Action The summer of 2013 was a very different world. President Obama was on course to sweep to a second term. ‘Brexit’ [...]