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Why a 28 day time limit on immigration detention?
Image by @Carcazan Earlier today, Sir Stephen Shaw gave oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee. I was half listening to the section of the session which touched on the [...]
“Everyone is vulnerable in detention”: The Bar Council calls for a time limit
Image by @Carcazan The Detention Forum is publishing a series of blogs looking at the evidence behind calls for a 28-day time limit on immigration detention. In this blog, we [...]
Detention reform: Shaw’s progress review in context
Stephen Shaw’s follow up review on the UK’s immigration detention system – Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons – was published on [...]
The wait is over: The second Shaw Review is finally published
In this guest blog, originally published by Scottish Detainee Visitors, SDV director, Kate Alexander, takes a look at the follow up to 2016’s Shaw Review and presents an overview of its [...]
The Detention Forum response to the Home Secretary’s statement on the Shaw Review
Earlier today, Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, made a statement to the House of Commons on immigration detention and the second Stephen Shaw review. This independent review focuses on progress made by [...]
The Detention Forum guide to navigating immigration detention statistics
The Home Office and Office of National Statistics regularly publish detailed tables showing the numbers of people held in immigration detention and subsequently released or removed from the UK. But what do [...]
‘Don’t be like me 12 years ago, don’t walk away’ – What you can do today to challenge immigration detention and hostile environment
Image by @Carcazan Just a few nights ago, I was flicking through a very old report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights published in 2007. Its edges are frayed. [...]
“A stain on our democracy and an affront to the rule of law”: Stuart McDonald MP named Detention Forum Champion
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East MP Stuart McDonald has been named a Detention Forum Champion by members of the Detention Forum and local civil society organisations for his outstanding contribution [...]
“There is a time to fight and there is a time to rest” – Paul Blomfield MP given the Detention Forum champion award by a Sudanese refugee in Sheffield
Paul Blomfield, Labour MP for Sheffield Central, was given the Detention Forum Champion award on 8 June 2018 over a special celebratory Iftar in Sheffield, in recognition of his work [...]
Revisiting the first Shaw Review
As we wait with bated breath for the results of Stephen Shaw’s second review of immigration detention, it’s worth taking some time to revisit his first. A former Prisons and [...]
From a migrant to a son of a migrant, the new Home Secretary
There is usually a moment of hesitation when a media story about something that you have known all along begins to turn into something that looks more like a proper [...]
#HungerforFreedom – opening a new chapter in the history of challenging immigration detention?
#HungerforFreedom – opening a new chapter in the history of challenging immigration detention? Today, we have heard that the hunger strike that started in Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedford [...]