August 2006
Some stories
Bournemouth campaigner protests against arrest and strip search
A Black man, who has been campaigning against Dorset police since being sprayed with CS gas in his own car, and whose story was reported by IRR News in March, says he has been victimised again by police.
17 August 2006 (264 words)
Tribunal of sacked refugee researcher reconvenes
Rhetta Moran, a researcher into refugee issues at the University of Salford, is about to face her twenty-fourth day of an industrial tribunal against dismissal.
16 August 2006 (469 words)
Report on Yarl's Wood calls for complete overhaul of child detention
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, has published a report criticising the continued detention of children at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
10 August 2006 (1030 words)
Abiy's family thank supporters
Abiy was returned to Ethiopia on 29 July and buried the next day by his brother and sister (Zelalem and Antenhe) with dignity in his homeland. (Read an IRR News article on Abiy Fessfha Abebe.)
3 August 2006 (358 words)
Innocent goes all the way to parliament
Congolese asylum seeker Innocent Nkung has taken his anti-deportation campaign all the way to the Houses of Parliament.
2 August 2006 (695 words)