Immigration Detention Follow

A hunger and labour strike at the Yarl’s Wood detention centre is shaking up the authorities. We show the the reality of life inside the centre, and how Home Office racism lies behind it

Women in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre began an indefinite hunger strike on Monday to demand an end to the degrading treatment and limitless detention they face.

The Home Office removed rough sleepers even if they were working or had permanent right of residence

The system of locking up migrants in detention centres must come to an end, doctors have warned

campaigners protested outside the Dungavel immigration detention centre in Scotland on Saturday

A damning official inspection into the Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has added to the case against the barbaric practice of immigration detention.

A Jamaican man detained at Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire died in hospital on Tuesday of last week.

An imam was stabbed in the neck outside a mosque in Greater Manchester last Sunday. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime and have arrested two men.

British authorities have rounded up around 30 Iraqis and locked them into detention centres in recent week. 

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