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'Terrible LIFE!!!!!'
By Imad Mahmoud, Khalid, Esraa, Haneen and Ala'a Mahmoud Abu Rideh
The children of Mahmoud Abu Rideh speak out about their experience of living with a control order.
2 July 2009 (1623 words)
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Being married to a control order detainee
By Dina Al Jnidi
The wife of a control order detainee describes the trauma the family has lived through and appeals for the right for her husband, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, to be allowed to leave the UK.
2 July 2009 (2105 words)
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Christopher Caldwell dissected
The author of key works on contemporary terrorism and the concept of Eurabia dissects the latest anti-Muslim tome.
2 July 2009 (3427 words)
Calais No Border camp
Before it even started, the Calais No Border Camp was attacked in the right-wing press.
25 June 2009 (422 words)
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Migrant coalition-building in Amsterdam
By Liz Fekete
If you want change, argues the Transnational Migrant Platform (TMP) in Amsterdam, you need to build a broad coalition capable of working simultaneously both on the domestic and the international front.
25 June 2009 (2523 words)
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Understanding hunger strikes
Dr Frank Arnold from Medical Justice provides an analysis of the current hunger strikes at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre.
24 June 2009 (external article)
scotsman 'Alarming' statistics on attempted suicides
New research shows that 22% of women seeking asylum in Scotland have attempted to commit suicide, whilst 70% have experienced physical or sexual violence.
19 June 2009 (external article)
bbc news Pupils' report on impact of removal, detention and deportation
Year 8 pupils at Brampton Manor School in east London talk about the impact the removal, detention and subsequent deportation of a fellow student back to India had on the wider school community.
18 June 2009 (external article)
Forced returns of Iraqis from Sweden
Deportation charter flights from the UK to the Kurdish controlled area of northern Iraq have been regular occurrences, now, other European countries are carrying out forced returns.
18 June 2009 (699 words)
bbc news Hunger strike at Yarl's Wood
Twenty people in the family unit at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre have been on hunger strike for two days in protest at the alleged 'sub-standard' level of medical care and the detention of children.
17 June 2009 (external article)
independent Languages tests for Palestinian and Kuwaiti asylum seekers
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has announced that asylum seekers who claim to come from Palestine or Kuwait will face being tested on their own language, apparently in an attempt to check the veracity of their claims.
16 June 2009 (external article)
bbc news Disturbance at Gatwick detention centre
A fire was started after unrest broke out at a wing of the newly-opened Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport.
15 June 2009 (external article)
middlesbrough evening gazette Campaigners claim asylum seeker beaten on Congo return
Supporters of Stockton student Blaise Kamba, 28, who was forcibly removed to the Democratic Republic of Congo, say he was tortured on his return by plain-clothed agents.
9 June 2009 (external article)
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Peaceful protest punished
By Frances Webber
A culture of fear seems to be re-establishing itself at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre (IRC), where a recent report reveals that peaceful protests about detention have led to those concerned being transferred to prison.
4 June 2009 (1495 words)
Asylum seekers wrongly refused legal aid
A local law centre project to help unrepresented asylum seekers has demonstrated that the vast majority are wrongly refused legal help for their appeals.
4 June 2009 (471 words)
daily mirror Black employee awarded £65,000 in discrimination case
An employment tribunal has awarded Emmanuel Obikwu £65,475 after it found that he had been racially discriminated against by the Refugee Council, who had made him and another Black worker redundant whilst promoting White staff.
3 June 2009 (external article)
glasgow herald Deported family sent back to UK from Africa
Fatou Felicite Gaye and her son Arouna, four, who were forcibly removed from Scotland to the Ivory Coast despite Scottish government opposition, have been returned because immigration officials there dispute her claims to citizenship.
2 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Warning over vulnerable asylum-seeking children
The Refugee Council has warned that children seeking asylum in the UK will be wrongly denied education and given no more help than adult asylum seekers as a result of a Home Office funding cut.
2 June 2009 (external article)
community care 'Degrading' conditions at Heathrow immigration centre
A prisons inspectorate report has found that vulnerable men held at Colnbrook immigration removal centre, near Heathrow airport, are being held in 'oppressive and degrading' conditions, whilst bullying was found to be a 'significant problem'.
2 June 2009 (external article)
hull daily mail Asylum seeker's abuse claims
A Cameroonian asylum seeker who has lived in Hull for seven years describes being beaten, kicked in the back and made to sit on his handcuffed hands by guards trying to deport him.
2 June 2009 (external article)
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