Refugee Follow

Six Kurdish Iranian refugees are on hunger strike in London in protest against British government plans to deport them to Iran.

Workers at the Glasgow Asylum Support Project are continuing their battle against privatisation that will affect the lives of hundreds of asylum seekers.

Refugee and migrant workers’ groups held a meeting in central London last Saturday following a series of horrendous immigration raids on workplaces in which workers have been arrested and deported.

Routes to Revolution showcases the creative responses of a group of refugee and newly arrived women towards Birmingham’s industrial and craft-based heritage.

African journalist Charles Atangana has been released from detention in Britain in a major victory for refugee rights campaigners.

A charity that provides legal representation to thousands of asylum seekers and refugees is being forced to close.

More than 100 people attended a Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees public meeting last week to discuss the suicide of the Serykh family.

"I can understand why a family here committed suicide. Think about how our lives waste away while we sit and wait in fear," a woman from Pakistan told me.

The tragic suicide of three Russian asylum seekers in Glasgow has shone a light on the appalling conditions faced by many refugees.

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One activist agreed to take us to a secret location near Calais university, where a group of Iranian students were hiding.

Abu Jabr is not someone you would normally find among the Calais asylum seekers.