Last year 12,666 people were forcibly deported from the UK – an average of nearly 35 people every day, often on commercial flights filled with holidaymakers, families and business travellers.
Refugees & Asylum
Torture victims were wrongly imprisoned in UK, high court rules
Hundreds of victims of torture have been wrongly locked up in immigration detention centres in the United Kingsom, a high court judge has ruled, following a challenge by seven survivors of serious abuse.
Britain’s brutal immigration detention system
Immigration detention and the abuses related to it get far less attention than they should. This is largely because it concerns immigrants and, in the current toxic state of the debate around immigration, it is hard to excite public and media concern.
First death in immigration detention 2017 / 3rd in five weeks
Just a month following the two deaths in immigration detention centres (Morton Hall and Colnbrook) in December 2016 another death has occurred at Morton Hall. This time by suicide on Wednesday 11th January 2017.
Migrant crisis : Drowned boy’s father speaks of heartbreak
The father of a 3-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a Turkey beach has told of the harrowing circumstances of his death. Alan Kurdi’s father Abdullah said that when the boat was hit by waves, the captain swam off.
No convictions over 500 black and Asian deaths in custody
More than 500 black and ethnic minority individuals have died in suspicious circumstances while in state detention over the past 24 years, but not a single official has been successfully prosecuted, a report has revealed.
Still fighting for justice in the UK
In the last few weeks of 2014, I joined thousands of people in London to demonstrate in solidarity with Mike Brown’s family and the protesters in Ferguson.
Old Bailey: G4S guards found not guilty of manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga
Three private security guards who restrained the Angolan deportee Jimmy Mubenga have been cleared of manslaughter by a jury at the Old Bailey. Jimmy died in October 2010.
