December 2005
Some stories
Couple challenge removal on compassionate grounds
The Scottish wife of a failed Mauritian asylum seeker has launched a campaign to keep her husband in the UK.
21 December 2005 (458 words)
A Dickensian classic set in Bedfordshire
In true Dickensian fashion, a new report reveals the appalling treatment of society's forgotten victims, namely female rape survivors and torture victims held at Yarl's Wood Removal Centre.
21 December 2005 (890 words)
Flores hands in petition to Home Office
19-year-old campaigner Flores Sukula, of Bolton, went to the Home Office in London this week to hand in a petition of 2,500 signatures in support of her family's anti-deportation campaign.
14 December 2005 (234 words)
Bail applications begin for men detained under anti-terror laws
On 6 December 2005, a small group of campaigners held a picket outside the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) to mark the start of bail hearings of some of the (many) foreign nationals, asylum seekers and refugees detained under anti-terror laws.
8 December 2005 (214 words)
Extraordinary support for Hata family
Wigan Council is to hold an Extraordinary Council Meeting on Wednesday 7 December 2005 in order to propose two motions in support of asylum-seeking families that have lived in Wigan.
6 December 2005 (604 words)
Pressure to end returns to DRC
Over fifty people, mainly asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), demonstrated outside the Home Office following the broadcast of a BBC radio documentary on the fate of asylum seekers who are deported back to the DRC.
6 December 2005 (494 words)