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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 [...]
New social media volunteers sought
At Detention Forum, we have a dynamic and committed team of social media volunteers, who help us to engage with our 12,000+ followers on Twitter and many, many more people. [...]
National demo against Hassockfield detention centre
At the start of 2021, news emerged that a new Immigration Removal Centre was to be opened in County Durham. It soon came to light that this was to be [...]
Alternatives to Detention
At our recent members' meeting we heard updates from the two Home Office funded pilot projects on alternatives to detention. After all the bleakness surrounding the Nationality and Borders Bill, [...]
Say no to the Rwanda asylum plan
We were really concerned to hear of the government’s recent announcement of their intention to send people seeking asylum and arriving in the UK to Rwanda. After the horrors of [...]