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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No Pride In Detention
This blog post comes from one of our members - Rainbow Migration It’s Pride Month and people are rightly celebrating how far LGBTQI+ rights have come in the UK. But [...]
Keep saying no to the Rwanda asylum scheme
We wrote back on 26th April that we should say no to the Rwanda asylum plan. The first flight was cancelled at the eleventh hour last night, but we should [...]
Time-served prisoners
When the last Immigration Bill was going through Parliament, I remember that one of the key government arguments against a time limit for immigration detention was their contention that such [...]
Short-term Holding Facilities in Northern France
Recently our Detention Forum members agreed our new policy paper on the use of the Short-term Holding Facilities in Northern France. This blog post draws out our key messages from [...]
Big turnout at national demo against Hassockfield
Over 500 people turned up at the weekend to show their opposition to the new detention centre for women at Hassockfield. This was a great turn-out for this national demonstration [...]