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)
Campaigners free Iranian web journalist from Home Office blunder
An Iranian asylum-seeker journalist facing deportation has been freed from detention after an energetic campaign led by the Brighton and Hove TUC Unemployed Workers Centre, the Friends of Amir group and Labour MP Celia Barlow.
6 December 2005 (918 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)
IRR EMAILS PROBLEMS FIXED
Due to technical problems with the Institute of Race Relations email service, IRR News emails were not delivered for around one week.
17 November 2005 (47 words)
More law, fewer rights
Another Bill dealing with immigration, asylum and nationality will seriously erode rights, according to immigration lawyers and organisations working with refugees.
16 November 2005 (942 words)
Demonstrations against deportation of children
Demonstrations in protest against the deportation of students and children will be staged this Saturday in Manchester and London.
15 November 2005 (1090 words)
Opposition in Scotland to Westminster's immigration policies is growing
Last week, the UK's minister on immigration Tony McNulty, in a high-handed intervention, forbade the assistant head of Immigration Services in Scotland from meeting a delegation of concerned Scottish church, charity and political representatives.
10 November 2005 (381 words)
Appearance battles against reality in Zimbabwe deportation policy
The Home Office has been accused of deliberately ignoring the national identity of failed asylum seekers in order to return Zimbabwean nationals to their homeland, despite the High Court's suspension of removals of Zimbabweans subject to a reappraisal of the situation.
10 November 2005 (849 words)
Racial violence in October
Incidents of racial violence and harassment in October.
3 November 2005 (1479 words)
Asylum seeker suicide: 'depressed and preoccupied'
On 20 October 2005, no family or friends were present at the inquest of Iranian asylum seeker Majid Rafieei at the Upperthorpe Medico-Legal Centre in Sheffield - which lasted just one hour.
27 October 2005 (607 words)
Campaign gathers momentum as Afghan youth faces deportation
A campaign launched to prevent an Afghan youth from being deported is the latest in a series of vociferous crusades championed by the Kent Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers.
25 October 2005 (822 words)
Holding the state to account for the deaths of vulnerable asylum seekers
A recent meeting on deaths in immigration detention centres called for the state to be held accountable for the deaths of vulnerable asylum seekers.
20 October 2005 (381 words)
London becomes BNP heartland
New research has found that support for the British National Party is higher in London than any other part of the UK, with 23 per cent of Londoners saying they would consider voting for the far-Right party.
20 October 2005 (772 words)
Race libraries on the move
The main library collection of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has moved from London to the University of Warwick, freeing the IRR to develop a unique Black history collection.
20 October 2005 (369 words)
Launch of European Civil Liberties Network
An online network of groups concerned with civil liberties, democracy and equality has been launched to counter unprecedented attacks on freedoms in Europe.
19 October 2005 (233 words)
Haslar staff routinely carry weapons, alleges inspector
A report on the inspection of Haslar Immigration Removal Centre, conducted in May by Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers, has elucidated a number of serious concerns regarding the safety, accommodation and legal representation of detainees.
19 October 2005 (706 words)