Oxford Migration Newswire Archive

No Borders and Campaign against Immigration Controls have called a demo at Amey HQ in Oxford in response to their sacking of several cleaners for trade union involvement, and their general attempt to force worse conditions and pay on the workers, using intimidation and deportation. Read more >>

Cameroon national and victim of torture Jean Pierre Gueutchue, was given very last minute removal directions today for tomorrow, 6:15am Read more >>

The hunger strikers in Campsfield House ended their Hunger strike on Sunday, 17 August, following a visits from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) representatives Dashty Jamal and Aso Goran. The Iraqi asylum seekers started the hunger strike on Saturday 9 August demanding an end to forcible deportations to Iraq and the release of all Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers from detention. However, they are ending the hunger strike before any one suffers ill effects from the hunger strike. Fazzel Abdul, the spokesperson for the hunger strikers, said this does not mean an end to the campaign. "We are finishing the hunger strike at this time whilst we are still all healthy. We do not want anyone to have health problems following the hunger strike."
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Campsfield detainees have been on hunger strike for up to 5 days. The hunger strike was seemingly initiated by 13 Iraqi detainees who were later joined by others of all nationalities. There are fifty detainees on hunger strike at the moment.

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Breaking news: detainees revolt again! Read more >>

Here is a Link to the video for The GEO noise demo in reading on Friday Read more >>

Activists opposed to migration controls converged on GEO’s Head Offices in Reading this morning, entertained them with some beautiful melodic tunes and gave them some helpful careers advice.
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Now the inquest has decided his wife was killed unlawfully by the NHS hospital which employed her, Arnel Cabrera is to be deported. Naughty man, he's foreign and was only allowed to live and work in England because his wife, the one the NHS killed, was a theatre nurse. You can protest -- right now -- without leaving your comfortable chair. Unless of course you know different. Read more >>

How many activists does it take to shut down the UK head offices of a multinational corporation?
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The hunger strike by five Zimbabwean women who are being held in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Center enters it's third day today. The women are protesting against their continued detention and impending deportation to Malawi. Read more >>

following YOUTUBE atrocity,  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MHzvsbPiNCs of police beating Albanians, a petition has been set up to draw attention to the torture that seems routine in Greece today. I am writing as a victim of such torture myself. Read more >>

Members of the Campaign to Close Campsfield held a very successful demonstration yesterday (7 August) outside the Campsfield immigrant prison, in an effort to "redress the balance of reportage" on the detainees escape last Saturday and to show the detainees inside that "not everyone goes along with the mood of hysteria." There were loud shouts of "Freedom!" and "Thank you very much!" from the main accommodation block, which protesters addressed using a megaphone across the prison's unused, weed-grown football pitch. Read more >>

No Borders UK statement on the Campsfield detainees' escape Read more >>

After another week of strikes and protests, the GEO-managed centre explodes - for the
2nd time in 6 months. Read more >>

Following Tuesday night's large, disciplined yard-protest and Wednesday morning's hunger strike, two Home Office representatives were called to Campsfield on Wednesday afternoon to hear the detainees' grievances. The pair, including the Assistant Director of Escorting Services at the Borders and Immigration Authority (Philip Schoelenberger?) were confronted by an angry, articulate, multi-national delegation of 22 detainees in a meeting that lasted 2 and a half hours. Read more >>

Following Tuesday night's large, disciplined yard-protest and Wednesday morning's hunger strike, two Home Office representatives were called to Campsfield on Wednesday afternoon to hear the detainees' grievances. The pair, including the Assistant Director of Escorting Services at the Borders and Immigration Authority (Philip Schoelenberger?) were confronted by an angry, articulate, multi-national delegation of 22 detainees in a meeting that lasted 2 and a half hours. Read more >>

The following statement was read out to a representative of the Campaign to Close Campsfield this afternoon at 5.30 with the request that it be distributed to the media. There will possibly be a
solidarity demo outside Campsfield House detention centre, Oxfordshire, tomorrow at 6pm. Read more >>

++Government refuses to spend £1bn/year to
protect against real floods; instead wastes
£1.5bn on an imaginary one.++ Read more >>

There is an as yet unconfirmed report of a fire and uprising inside Campsfield Detention Centre, near Oxford. Read more >>