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Italian authorities have arrested a man for being one of the traffickers responsible for a fatal sinking last month, when at least 366 migrants died. 

As Yarl’s Wood is mired in an abuse scandal, Ken Olende looks at the scale of detention centres in Britain and what life is like for people locked inside them

Theresa May reiterated harsh new immigration plans while bodies of African migrants were being fished from the sea, says?Dave Sewell

A boat packed with 500 migrants caught fire and sank half a mile from the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday of last week.

Around 100 people protested at UK Border Agency in Glasgow against giant posters inside depicting a destitute refugee last Monday. The posters read, “Is life here hard? Going home is simple”

Teachers in Rochdale NUT union and the refugee organisation Rapar have co-organised a fundraiser for a Nigerian asylum seeker in Rochdale on Sunday of this week. 

New Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd played the race card to try to boost his votes—but the move has backfired, writes Ken Olende

Refugee wins right to stay in Britain

An asylum seeker has defied harassment to score a major housing victory over G4S and its local subcontractor, writes John Grayson

A court decision in Glasgow allows refused asylum seekers to be left homeless and destitute in a legal limbo.

Jimmy Mubenga cried for help around 50 times in the struggle that led to his death, his inquest has heard. 

Supporters of Aminet Mary Adenugba, a trafficked woman from Nigeria, demonstrated outside her hearing in Manchester on Friday of last week.