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National Protest against Derwentside IRC (Hassockfield)

Our friends in the North East are organising another national protest against the new detention centre in Derwentside - previously known as Hassockfield. It will be held on Saturday 15th October 2022 at midday - and this time [...]

2022-09-15T12:41:00+00:00September 15th, 2022|

The cost of immigration detention

We thought that it was helpful to highlight a recent Parliamentary question asked by Alison Thewliss MP of Simon Baynes MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office/ Ministry of Justice. She asked him how much [...]

2022-09-14T11:45:04+00:00September 14th, 2022|

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 scrap all plans for asylum accommodation centres, following [...]

2022-08-23T07:40:47+00:00August 23rd, 2022|

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 been launched, and do check out their website [...]

2022-08-25T07:20:31+00:00August 22nd, 2022|

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 a project which has just come to an [...]

2022-08-16T13:29:39+00:00August 16th, 2022|

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 Linton. This was a group of local people [...]

2022-08-12T10:27:11+00:00August 12th, 2022|

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 the Home Secretary warning of safety concerns and [...]

2022-08-01T15:13:09+00:00August 1st, 2022|

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 to access legal advice in person. Because of [...]

2022-07-29T09:26:49+00:00July 29th, 2022|

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 and unjust– more detention means more years of uncertainty [...]

2022-07-13T09:15:55+00:00July 13th, 2022|
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