National Day of Solidarity 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 day of action calling for an end to the inhumane [...]
Accessing legal advice in detention
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 not even securing a one-off 30 minute telephone conversation via [...]
This is such a powerful story – do spread the word!
Our friends at Migrant Voice have recently produced a new newspaper in both hard copy and online formats, and we were delighted to see that they featured the powerful story of Stella on her experience in immigration detention. This is such a powerful story and had already been promoted by [...]
A decade of harm
We are keen to promote the new report by Women for Refugee Women on immigration detention, A Decade of Harm, has officially launched today! The research was designed and carried out by a team of 7 women who have personal experience of the UK’s asylum process. The report shows: · [...]
Removed animation: take action now!
We don't often have our breath taking away quite so strongly as after we watched the recent video produced by our friends at AVID. Their new animated video exposes what really happens in UK immigration detention. It is such a powerful video to watch and one of those short videos [...]
UNHCR on new Border Security Bill
As the new Border Security Bill works its way through the House of Commons, we were keen to see the latest UNHCR perspective on the Bill In particular we were struck by this statement: UNHCR is concerned that the retention of Section 12 may result in refugees and stateless people [...]
APPG on Immigration Detention
We are delighted that recently Parliamentarians held a meeting to re-establish the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention. Following a vote by the membership, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP (Labour) was elected as the APPG’s new Chair, and Rt Hon. the Lord Garnier KC (Conservative), Baroness Hamwee (Liberal Democrat) and Mohammad [...]
New briefing on immigration detention in the UK
We are keen to promote this new briefing from the Migration Observatory, which examines immigration detention in the UK. It discusses who is detained, for how long, with what effects, and the financial costs of operating the system. It is a great starting point for finding out more about this [...]