UK Migration Newswire Archive
Close Down Sandford House Reporting Centre!
23-06-2006 15:25
There is a regular monthly protest on the last friday of the month at Solihull's Home Office Reporting Centre from 12pm - 2pm, called by Birmingham Noborders and Birmingham's Anti-Racist Campaign - details of the protest are below.
The music in the report is by Vince and the percussion by John. You can hear this song along with others including film, poetry, discussion and live bands at the Birmingham Noborders benefit on the evening of the monthly demo at Sandford House - Friday 30th June, 8pm - 2am at the Spotted Dog in Digbeth Birmingham.
In the interview she describes how she was snatched and abused by yellow jacketed 'escorts' whilst signing at Sandford House and subsequently taken to the immigration prison that is Yarlswood detention centre.
She tells of her experiences in Yarlswood and the unimaginable state of limbo thousands of Refugees experience whilst awaiting a decision from the Home Office. She also tells of the horror of a young woman who was forcibly deported whilst naked from Yarlswood and who was filmed by the detention centre staff. The Home Office later denied they had abused and filmed the detainee.
Please come and show your anger and disgust at the Border Regime on Friday 30th June at Solihull's Home Office Reporting Centre.
Noise Demonstration in Support of Asylum Seekers 22nd June
22-06-2006 17:48
No to Deportation! No to detention!
"Remember the Dead, Justice for the Living" Vigil
21-06-2006 19:01
On 20th June, 2006, the Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) staged a vigil in the grounds of St. Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham to "commemorate those asylum seekers who took their own lives while awaiting the Home Office's decision or incarcerated in detention centres, and to pledge our determination to campaign for justice for the living."
Using 34 hand-made "stone graves", which bore the details and stories of asylum seekers who have died recently, the vigil managed to eloquently tell of the shameful asylum system that sometimes drives its victims to such depth of despair that they take their own lives, many of them because they would rather be dead than be sent back to the countries they had fled.
Related: call-out and flyer | list of documented refugee deaths throughout Fortress Europe | previous sleep-outs: 2005 | 2004
Big noise to hit Britain's immigration reporting centres this Thursday
20-06-2006 20:10
Pathfinder exposed by Corporate Watch
20-06-2006 18:47
John Prescott's government department may have vanished, but the wrecking ball he has set in motion is still poised to demolish thousands of homes across Northern England and the Midlands - there's far too much money involved to let this one go.Smithdown Against Demolition formed in Liverpool
20-06-2006 17:33
On July 11, 2006 the issue of the unnecessary Compulsory Purchase Orders for our homes and businesses went to Public Inquiry. For those of you who have been to public meetings and been told by the council and their partners that these houses are definitely coming down - this is a lie. This is their preferred option, which will be decided by Public Inquiry, and then by Ruth Kelly MP, for the Government.Birmingham NoBorders and The Angel Group at Celebrating Sanctuary
20-06-2006 10:21
Last Saturday, 17th June, saw the main events of Celebrating Sanctuary, Birmingham's version of Refugee Week. Throughout the day, Victoria Square was buzzing with events and activities, although significantly less than previous years. There was also an open-air concert in Chamberlain Square in the afternoon, with live refugee bands from different parts of the world.
Having postponed a guided tour of Birmingham's border regime that was supposed to take place on that same day, Birmingham NoBorders chose to do some leafleting to "tell people the truth about the event," as one of the activists put it. The leaflet, of which hundreds of copies were given away, exposed ‘The Angel Group’ and criticised Celebrating Sanctuary for, among other things, being funded by asylum profiteers.
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Refugee benefit gig in Liverpool
19-06-2006 17:39
REFUGEE BENEFIT GIG (in aid of NCADC)Thu 20th July 2006
The Magnet, Hardman Street, Liverpool
Doors open 8pm
Letter to Press From Campsfield Hungerstrikers
19-06-2006 09:56
120 migrants detainees on hungerstrike in Campdfield Immigration Removal Center, near Oxford, went on hungerstrike last week to protest against conditions. Here is a letter some of the hungerstrikers wrote for the press.Video from the hunger stike in Oslo
19-06-2006 09:17
The hunger strikers on friday were attacked by the police who stole all their tents and blankets.Rahimi Family Must Stay! - Public Meeting
18-06-2006 19:21
How boring a fish bowl is for a fish!
How scary and dark a grave is for a living and breathing boy!
How ugly detention is for a child!
Hand cuffs, iron locks, closed doors, fences
I was just six years old.
I felt great sorrow, as I had been doing very well at school And they
didn't permit me to go to school
when they took me to Yarlswood prison
For what crime? I don't know.
We came from a far land
with exhausted feet,
to this strange land
I want to smell calming flowers,
I want to search for secure moments,
I wish that I could fly!
Violent repression of Afghani refugees hunger strike in Norway
17-06-2006 18:19
Early Friday morning around 100 policemen, some of them with horses, came in place, and violently entered the hunger strikers tents, in order to remove them. The police exercised exceed pressure and violence and even broke fingers of refugees.Innocent prisoners prefer to die
17-06-2006 09:17
Protests Have Continued at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) north of Oxford with a yard-occupation last night by 25 inmates lasting until 5 am this morning, constantly-changing numbers refusing food at mealtimes, and sporadic violence.120 Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike at Campsfield IRC
17-06-2006 01:59
Here is a letter which the detainees on hunger strike at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (at Kidlington near Oxford) have written. They started their hunger strike last Wednesday 14th June; 80 of them did not take breakfast, and they estimate that there are now about 120 on hunger strike.NATIONWIDE NOISE DEMONSTRATIONS IN SUPPORT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS
16-06-2006 13:01
Newcastle based group Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) is coordinating a National Day of Action against Home Office reporting centres and detention camps in Britain on Thursday, 22nd June. TCAR will be staging a lively noise demonstration outside the reporting centre in North Shields which asylum rights groups in London, Leeds and Manchester will join by demonstrating outside their local reporting centres.Vigil: Remember the dead, Justice for the living
16-06-2006 08:59
Tuesday 20 June, 5pm to 9pm at the Cathedral Square, Colmore Row.
Review of 'Alternatives' meeting in Telford
16-06-2006 06:44
Positives and negatives to take from the 'Alternatives' meeting on 10 JuneOptions for Asylum Seekers?
15-06-2006 23:46
Urgent action needed: stop Begum being deported Satuday the 17th!
15-06-2006 16:55
Begum Must Stay! - Begum Belongs to DoverBegum is an Indian rape survivor who does not wish her full identity to be revealed for fear that her abusive ex husband will find her and kill her if she is forcibly returned to India.
Begum faces deportation to India on Saturday June 17th on flight AI 102 at 9.45am from Heathrow Airport.
PRESS-RELEASE: HUNGER STRIKE in protest agains human rights abuses...
15-06-2006 16:22
CANDLE-LIT DEMONSTRATION OF SUPPORT, THIS EVENING, 9.45 pmGovernment policy is aimed at destroying hope among detainees.
Tonight, we want to show them that there are people out here who care.
Please join the Campaign to Close Campsfield and Oxford Students to
Close Campsfield/Student Action for Refugees (STAR) TONIGHT, Thursday
the 15th of June, for a vigil 21.45-22.30
Meeting for lifts outside the Taylorian Institute on St Giles at 21.20.
Bring musical instruments, candles, jamjars...