The theme of this year’s Unlocking Detention is ‘action’ so who better to hear from than the Freed Voices group. Earlier this week, Mishka from Freed Voices joined campaigners Fred Ashmore and Timothy Gee from the Quakers to [...]
Detention Action has been running advice surgeries every month at the Verne detention centre, which is set to close at the end of this year. Jerome Phelps, Director of Detention Action, considers what our next task is. [...]
One of the themes of this year's Unlocking Detention tour is action. We are distributing the following material for groups interested in joining the tour. Please feel free to use them, share with others and so on! Welcome [...]
Yesterday, we published part 1 of Mrs A's contribution to Unlocking Detention, submitted by her solicitor at Duncan Lewis. In part 2 of her blog, Mrs A continues to describe her experience of and take on immigration detention [...]
The first week of #Unlocked17 is a gentle introduction to the rest of the tour and we will be sharing with you some basic information about immigration detention centres. First, a quiz for beginners! Can you answer these [...]
Hello, and welcome back to Unlocking Detention! This year’s Unlocking Detention, #Unlocked17, marks our fourth virtual tour of the UK immigration detention estate. And it starts at a moment of crisis and upheavals. Last month, an undercover documentary [...]
During the Unlocking Detention tour, why not speak out against immigration detention? A simple way of doing this is to tweet us a selfie of you holding up one of the Unlocking Detention messages. Here's how: Step 1 - [...]
Following the death of a Chinese person at Dungavel in Scotland and the Panorama documentary on Brook House near Gatwick Airport, immigration detention is yet again under intense scrutiny. At the Labour party conference in Brighton, a number of campaigners [...]
To mark the end of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience – all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe – their [...]
To mark the end of this year’s Unlocking Detention tour, we asked a selection of activists, legal commentators, politicians, journalists and experts-by-experience – all engaged in the fight against detention in the UK and across Europe – their [...]