Posted on March 30, 2010, 7:29 pm, by simon, under
Uncategorized.
The Hackney Citizen Tuesday 30 March 2010 As former Hackney residents and [current] coordinators of the End Child Detention Now campaign, we wholeheartedly agree with Diane Abbott that Yarl’s Wood detention centre should be closed before further damage is caused to children and to the UK’s reputation (Hackney MPs clash over child detention at Yarl’s [...]
Posted on March 25, 2010, 9:39 pm, by simon, under
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children,
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Phil Woolas,
royal colleges of medicine,
UKBA,
unlawful imprisonment,
Yarl's Wood.
Phil Woolas’s defence of the inhumane Yarl’s Wood removal centre reflects Labour’s shift to the right on asylum Simon Parker, The Guardian, Comment is Free, Thursday 25 March 2010, 15.00 GMT. Phil Woolas’s response to a further damning report on Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre by the chief inspector of prisons shows that the government has [...]
Refugee and Migrant Justice, a charity that provides legal advice and support to asylum-seekers and other vulnerable migrants in the UK, today issued a report Safe at Last. Children on the front line of UK Border Control which found consistent evidence of the government’s failure to abide by its safeguarding duties under Section 55 of [...]
Posted on March 22, 2010, 10:37 am, by simon, under
York.
Corry Hewitt One of the early, dedicated supporters of End Child Detention Now, Corry Hewitt, died in February and is a great loss to the campaign. Corry’s anger at the injustice of child detention continues to inspire us and we remember her with much love and gratitude.
Responding to Michael Morpurgo’s film on the detention of children at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Home Office Minister Meg Hillier gave an astonishing interview in which she stated in response to a question from presenter Jo Coburn: Let’s be clear, nobody wants to see children detained. Certainly I don’t. But we do have an [...]
A Home Office commissioned report by Baroness Nuala O’Loan [now removed from the Home Office website with no archive link!] into a catalogue of serious abuses that detainees alleged they suffered at the hands of the UK Border Agency’s security contractors claimed not to have found evidence of ‘systematic abuse’, but did highlight alarming operational failures [...]
Posted on March 14, 2010, 8:33 pm, by simon, under
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The Liberal Democrat Spring Conference today pledged its commitment to ending child detention in immigration centres. Commenting, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “It is a moral stain on this country’s proud reputation in accepting refugees that we are routinely locking up children for months at a time even though they have committed no [...]
Posted on March 5, 2010, 10:48 am, by simon, under
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Cardiff,
child detention,
children,
deportation,
mistreatment,
UKBA,
Unaccompanied minor,
unlawful imprisonment.
Campaigners for the release of young Afghani orphan Mashal Jabari were delighted to hear that following a judicial review being lodged the judge agreed the following interim measures: until another full age assessment is completed, Mashal is to be considered 14 years of age and placed with a foster family in Wales where he has some support. After [...]
Posted on March 3, 2010, 4:41 pm, by simon, under
Cardiff,
child detention,
children,
deportation,
UKBA,
Unaccompanied minor,
unlawful imprisonment.
A 14 year old orphan has been arrested & detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal centre near Oxford, which exclusively holds adult males, and is due to be deported because the authorities claim not to believe he is under 18. His older brother has refugee status — the authorities accept that the older brother is under 18. . .As they [...]
