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We are a network of over 50 independent organisations across the UK committed to working together to challenge the use of immigration detention.

We want to end immigration detention because it is unjust and inhumane.

National Day of Solidarity 2025

August 20th, 2025|

We are keen to promote the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on Saturday, 18 October 2025 at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre organised by our friends at Right to Remain and No To Hassockfield. This is a nationwide [...]

Accessing legal advice in detention

July 28th, 2025|

We are keen to highlight the new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service on Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility. The report highlights that it is extraordinarily difficult to access legal advice in immigration detention, with many people [...]

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🚨Launched today!

Our report, #ADecadeOfHarm, uncovers:

❌Shocking new findings about the impact of immigration detention on women seeking safety,
❌and the extremely concerning gaps between Home Office policy and practice.

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Many cells in UK detention centres are smaller than an average parking space. People are detained there by the Home Office without a time limit, often for months or years at a time, locked in that tiny space for up to 12 hours a day. This has to stop. It's time for a time limit.

Our 'Thinking with our communities: detention and beyond detention' event aims to build our communities’ collective power against detention and enforcement.

This judgment should remind the Home Office to undertake a thorough, lawful assessment of an individual’s evidence when making decisions on the reinstatement of trafficking support, esp where the person has mental health needs that have not been met.

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