UK Migration Newswire Archive
Europes externalised immigration controls lead to mass drowning in mediterranean
02-04-2009 09:34
Over 500 migrants are likely to have drowned crossing the mediterranean from Libya as two boats sank and a third is still missing . The true circumstances are unknown except to the migrants themselves .The Libyan authorities put responsibility on strong winds rather than on the border regime they are implementing on behalf of Italy and European governments and paid for by the taxpayers of Italy and of the European Union.
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - March 2009
02-04-2009 05:22
Nine conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in March 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatchStop the Forcible Removal of Jeevitha and Neeraja
01-04-2009 08:45
London No Borders benefit - TONIGHT!
31-03-2009 11:09
No Border Folk!Acoustic benefit at the Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden NW1 7AN
Tonight from 7pm
Stop Forced closure of University of East London (UEL)
31-03-2009 08:57
Dear friendsthe University of East London (UEL) was supposed to host an alternative summit on April 1st in the context of the upcoming G20 meeting on April 2nd. Following the media and police hype about possible disruptions to the city, the University withdrew its support for the alternative summit.
Refugees Rights: Save **** ***** ******
31-03-2009 08:18
A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”Save **** ***** ******, a Ugandan gay persecuted
31-03-2009 08:08
A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”
NCADC News Service Tuesday 31st March 2009
31-03-2009 06:34
[Failed asylum seekers are not entitled to free treatment - but hospitals can make up their own minds on whether to treat them if they have no money]Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
Appeal Court: Unlawful for hospitals to refuse urgent treatment to migrants
30-03-2009 15:21
Press release 30.3.2009: The Court of Appeal has today ruled that Department of Health guidance which forbade hospitals from providing temporary healthcare to destitute migrants with chronic illnesses is unlawful.Tinsley blockaders charched with aggravated trespass
30-03-2009 14:27
Seven anti-deportation campaigners who blockaded an immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport earlier this month today pleaded guilty to the charge of 'aggravated trespass' at Crawley Magistrates Court. Six of them locked and glued themselves to the gate of Tinsley House on 17th March in an attempt to prevent Iraqi refugees being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to northern Iraq later that day (see
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424608.html). All seven have been released on conditional discharge and ordered to pay the court fees. Two other protesters, who were also arrested on the action, have pleaded not guilty and are due in court again soon. Break the siege! No Borders national day of action for Gaza
30-03-2009 12:35
On the 5th February, Israel and Egypt shut all borders with Gaza. Egypt has said it will close the Rafah border indefinitely as Gaza is an 'occupied territory'. No Borders UK calls for an immediate opening of Israeli and Egyptian borders with Gaza.No Borders calls for a day of action on 27th April. Target those profiting from the siege (BAE, G4S, Caterpillar, EDO, Raytheon etc.).
Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield
30-03-2009 06:24
Protest at Yarl’s Wood Migrant Prison
25-03-2009 13:49
Around the Campaigns Wednesday 25th March 2009
25-03-2009 12:13
Sandrine Mbuyi Ntambwe, Still here, Still fighting"Sandrine was already on the plane; a late successful injunction got her off the flight and returned to Yarl's Wood. She is not to be removed from the jurisdiction of the UK pending the oral hearing of her application for permission for judicial review refused on papers on 13th March 2009.
Main countries of destination for asylum seekers in 2008
25-03-2009 09:11
United States (49,000), Canada (36,900), France (35,200), Italy (31,200) and the United Kingdom (30,500)
Call for Summer of Resistance 2009
24-03-2009 13:14
Against NATO, G20, G8, Frontex and the “Stockholm Programme”!
Yarl's Wood demo for an end to immigration detention / report
23-03-2009 12:07
Nearly 200 people gathered Saturday 21st March in Bedford town centre, than heading to Yarl's Wood immigration prison, demanding its closure. Yarl's Wood has 405 capacity and holds single women and families with children. The building of a new immigration prison, next to Yarl's Wood, has just been approved, to hold 500 single men.Brook House opens.. and causes a hungerstrike in adjacent Tinsley House
22-03-2009 18:16
May Day 2009 in Nottingham (Sat May 2nd, Brewhouse Yard)
22-03-2009 17:20