G4S guard in dead deportee case shared racist jokes
The G4S security guard in charge of restraining an Angolan man who died as he was being deported from Britain was told in court to read out a string of racist jokes he received and forwarded using his mobile phone.…
Deaths in immigration detention on the increase?
This year, two men have died following their detention in immigration removal centres near Heathrow, and another two people have died in hospital shortly after release from detention in 2012 eta 2011. Two deaths of asylum seekers in the first three months of this year is a worrying…
Glasgow’s asylum seekers: The people who ‘don’t exist’
They have been described as "invisible people" - asylum seekers who have been refused refugee status, but who have not returned home. The Home Office says it wants them "to experience an increasingly uncomfortable environment" so they will leave.…
