Media coverage
MPs call for end to indefinite detention of migrants The Guardian
Migrant detention: Souleymanye’s story The Guardian
Immigration centres: Act now to overhaul Britain’s ‘shocking’ detention of migrants indefinitely and in appalling conditions, say MPs The Independent
MPs call for immigration detention cap BBC News
Asylum seekers detained at Dungavel for more than a year BBC News Scotland
Cap immigration detention at 28 days, say MPs Channel 4 News Online
Damning parliamentary report threatens to blow doors off detention regime Politics.co.uk
Scotland 2015 BBC Scotland
Samphire in Dover welcomes inquiry which says immigration detention should be capped Kent Online featuring our member Samphire
BBC Radio Kent Dominic King Interview with Samphire (at 1 hour 55 min, available until end of March 2015)
Jewish human rights group welcomes report on detention of asylum seekers Jewish News Online featuring our member René Cassin
UK criticised over treatment of migrants Al Jazeera film clip on the detention inquiry report
Time for a Time Limit – Parliamentarians call for 28 day maximum time limit on immigration detention Independent Catholic News
MPs attack ‘shocking’ treatment of migrants The Tablet
Urgent question about Yarl’s Wood due to be asked in Parliament following shocking undercover filming report Bedford Today
‘What crime have I committed to be held like this?’: inside Yarl’s Wood The Guardian
Asylum seekers and illegal immigrants being held at Scots detention centre for more than a year Daily Record, Scotland (note – we do not endorse the use of the phrase “illegal immigrants”)
Theresa May ‘allowed state-sanctioned abuse of women’ at Yarl’s Wood The Guardian
The UK Asylum System Is Officially Terrible Vice
Befriending group welcomes recommendations in report on immigration detention centres Bedford Today
UN backs proposal to limit immigration detention in the UK Sputnik
Bishop calls for ‘humane’ UK immigration policies Catholic Herald
BBC Scotland’s coverage BBC Scotland, starts at 3:50
MPs: LGBT asylum seekers face ‘bullying’ and ‘abuse’ in British detention centres Pink News
Locking up immigrants diminishes us all The Guardian
Spending years in detention as a migrant to the UK BBC Africa
Yarl’s Wood Guard Suspended After Secret Film Sky News
UK detention report calls for “radical shift” IRIN News
How getting tough on asylum seekers cost the taxpayer millions Politics.co.uk
UK immigration detention: the truth is out openDemocracy
Second suspension at Yarl’s Wood Mail Online
Call for immigration detention cap Mail Online
MPs call for introduction of 28-day immigration detention cap ITV News
‘I felt nobody was safe’ at detention centre, says former Yarl’s Wood detainee ITV News
Sheffield MP voices concerns over immigration detention The Star (Sheffield)
Abuse, threats and physical violence… the scandal of Britain’s immigration removal system Christian Today
MPs call for ‘complete overhaul’ of UK’s immigration detention system as undercover footage reveals shocking attitudes of some Yarls Wood staff Bedfordshire News
The detention scandal: time for a change Christian Today
Yarl’s Wood: Second worker suspended after abuse allegations BBC News Beds, Herts & Bucks
‘Expensive, ineffective & unjust’: MPs urge end to indefinite migrant detention Russia Today
‘I just wanted to die’: Asylum seeker detained at Yarl’s Wood speaks to RT Russia Today
Immigration stories horrify parliamentary group Church Times
Humza Yousaf: Only SNP have economic strategy to rival ‘bleak futures’ from Westminster Daily Record
Scotland slams UK treatment of LGBTI asylum seekers KleidoScot
Immigration centre campaigners welcome detention time limit report The Oxford Times
RICHARD FULLER MP: I back BoS’ campaign to Shut Down Yarl’s Wood Bedfordshire on Sunday
Prisons inspector backs migrant detention time limit Politics Home
Call to limit length of migrant detention The Times
Group backs call to cut immigration detention The News (Portsmouth)
MSPs object to asylum seeker incarceration times at controversial Strathaven facility Daily Record (Scotland)
Home Office withdraws Campsfield expansion plan Cherwell
Nick Clegg’s Q & A: Live Blog Liberal Democrat Voice (See Immigration and Asylum section)
Migrants on hunger strike for better conditions at Dungavel The National (Scotland)
Shock claims of detainee at Portland’s Verne amid staff concerns over training Dorset Echo
Theresa May urged to investigate Dungavel concerns Sunday Herald
Labour vows to ban indefinite detention of asylum and immigration applicants The Guardian
Interview on LBC Radio (below)
Also radio pieces on the inquiry report on BBC 3 Counties (Richard Fuller MP), BBC Oxford, BBC Cambridge, BBC Somerset, BBC Derby, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire (Sarah Teather MP)
Responses and blogs
Sarah Teather MP’s piece for the Huffington Post It’s Clear That Our Current System of Immigration Detention Isn’t Working
David Burrowes MP’s piece for conservativehome Immigration detention should no longer be out of sight and out of mind
Paul Blomfield MP’s piece for Labour List Immigration detention: it’s time for a new approach
Julian Huppert MP’s piece for Liberal Democrat Voice We must end indefinite detention of immigrants
The Detention Forum’s response
Migrants’ Rights Network’s response
Campaigners must now keep up the fight for ambitious detention reforms by Migrants’ Rights Network
The Detention Forum’s piece for openDemocracy
The Refugee Council’s piece for the Huffington Post
The Refugee Council’s response
Scottish Refugee Council’s response
Scottish Detainee Visitors’ response
International Detention Coalition’s response
Refugee Action’s storify of the report launch day
BID’s storify of the report launch event
Deighton Pierce Glynn Solicitors’ reponse (see news on 3/3/15)
Churches Refugee Network response
Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network response
Campaign to Close Campsfield’s response
Gatwick Detainee Welfare Gropu Response