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Below we reproduce the statement given by the wife of Jimmy Mubenga to the inquest into his death.
G4S, a security company contracted to provide housing for asylum seekers, has threatened to evict a tenant in Leeds because of rent arrears that the company owes but refuses to pay.
Proposals requiring schools to check on the immigration status of their pupils have been vetoed by Liberal Democrat school minister David Laws, who says the plans would be too difficult to implement.
Five detained asylum seekers have won a test case against the Home Office’s policy of ignoring medical evidence of torture and have been awarded compensation by the High Court.
Croydon Council has paid out almost £1.2m in legal fees for wrongly classifying asylum seeking children as adults.
EU countries are accused of leaving asylum seekers from the Russian Federation vulnerable to the repressive reach of the Russian state.
The G4S guard in charge of restraining Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker who died during a deportation flight, was made to read out in court a string of racist jokes he had shared with friends.
On Monday 13 May 2013, the inquest into the death of Jimmy Mubenga begins.
A Jamaican woman is fighting to keep her 6-year-old British-born daughter in the country. The girl was denied citizenship after her father, reportedly a white Briton, refused a paternity test.
This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber.
This year, two men have died following their detention in immigration removal centres near Heathrow, and another two people have died in hospital shortly after release from detention in 2012 and 2011.
An asylum seeker living in Weymouth has attempted to take her own life after the UKBA threatened to deport her. She is married in the UK and the couple deny accusations that the marriage is a sham.
A new study has found that 111 parents have been separated from their children by immigration detention, with appalling consequences for the children concerned.
As the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence approaches, the IRR examines racial violence since his death in 1993.
Campaigners rallied outside Glasgow Sherriff Court in an attempt to block an attempt to evict asylum seekers housed by Y People in preparation for the handover of housing contracts to Serco, a private security company.
A man who fell from the undercarriage of an aeroplane flying into Heathrow has been identified as Jose Matada, an Angolan man. An inquest into his death has been opened.
The Home Office is to investigate the death of 52-year-old asylum seeker Khalid Shahzad, who died within hours of being released from Colnbrook detention centre.
A collection of essays on varieties of European racism contains valuable insights and useful lessons.
Migrants living in Britain will have to wait a year before being allowed access to civil legal aid.
The IRR’s free weekly email on race and refugee issues.
There are grounds for hope for improvement in detainees’ health treatment, but vigilance is still needed.
Stop G4S campaigners will hold a second convergence in London to coordinate activities against the multinational.
Another case of unlawful detention demonstrates that UKBA officials intent on detention and removal sometimes don’t even read psychiatric reports suggesting detention might be damaging.
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice.
May 23 2013
Jimmy Mubenga: a day in the life of an inquest
IRR News provides a snapshot report from the second day of the inquest in to the death of Jimmy Mubenga[1] which is due to last eight weeks.
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