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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 [...]

Mama Stella’s story

At our last members meeting we heard about the work of our media group at our meeting. Our media group contains people with lived experience of immigration detention in the UK and who are powerful communicators. We are working with them to tell more people about the inhumanity of the [...]

Keep Campsfield Closed Demo

Our friends at the Keep Campsfield Closed Campaign have arranged the following demonstration: KEEP CAMPSFIELD CLOSED! 12 NOON 30 NOVEMBER 2024 CAMPSFIELD GATES LANGFORD LANE KIDLINGTON OX5 1RE  BUS INFORMATION: S7 FROM MAGDALEN STREET (STOP C3) OXFORD People were detained in Campsfield House for 25 years, from 1993 until its [...]

We mourn another death at Brook House

We are mourning the tragic news of another death at Brook House, after a man died at the detention centre on Sunday. This is almost a year since an Albanian man died at the same detention centre. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Surely this sad news demonstrates [...]

Do not ignore the Brook House Inquiry

At our recent members' meeting, we discussed our three key priorities for our engagement with the new Government and Parliament. They are as follows: Keep Haslar (in Hampshire) and Campsfield (in Oxfordshire) detention centres closed A 28 day time limit for anyone in immigration detention with judicial oversight Develop the [...]

Alternatives to Detention event

The Detention Forum is happy to be joining our friends at Rene Cassin and Rainbow Migration at an online event next week promoting the compassionate alternative to immigration detention - welcome the stranger: the need for alternatives to detention. We do hope that you can join us next week as [...]

Gatwick detention centre becoming less safe

Following on from the Brook House Inquiry, we were saddened to see the recent publication of another independent report this time showing that since then safety has got worse for the people detained there. The findings were published in the annual report by the independent monitoring board for the Gatwick [...]

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