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We are hiring! Please share this role within your network. 📑Job Title: Senior Network Co-ordinator 👇How to apply: send us a CV and Cover letter - find out more on the role below. 🕙 Deadline for applications: End of day, 10th March 2025. #CharityJobs www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/join...

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📣Save the date!📣 Join us for our next Information Session on the 20th March from 19:30-20:30 via teams. 🌟 Learn more about what we do and how you can get involved as a volunteer. Sign up now by scanning the QR code or clicking the link below! 👇 beyonddetentioninformationsessions.eventbrite.co.uk

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HO released disturbing footage of deportation charter flights. A new blog by @mfbosworth.bsky.social reflects on her research into the detainee escorting system. What's not shown in this video? The resistance, the chaos, the sorrow, the fear. 📑Read more below: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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What's your plan for this #InternationalWomensDay? Be among the first to watch Removed, an animation that tells the stories of many through the voice of one woman—Hope—followed by a long table discussion to be an expert and a participant! Find out more here👇 www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/avid...

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Report published on pre-appointment hearing for ICIBI inspector, John Tuckett! The report raise concern of his resident in Finland and warns that the HO must ensure a constructive relationship is built with the new appointee if it is to retain public trust. committees.parliament.uk/committee/83...

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Our Annual Conference just wrapped up this week, and we are leaving with fire, strategy and radical hope. As the UK doubles down on detention, we are growing stronger, bolder & more connected in our fight for freedom & dignity. 🛑 No one should be locked up for seeking safety. #ImmigrationDetention

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The Home Office have announced that the non-statutory inquiry into conditions at Manston between June and November 2022 will begin next month questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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🚨Manston inquiry will begin from 17th March to investigate the mistreatment of peole detained at the Manston detention centre. In late 2022, around 4,000 people were held in the 1,600-person capacity centre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nadra Tabasam Almas, of Leicester, was detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in 2018 for 2-weeks. She was unlawfully detained before her ability to work, buy food and socialise was “grossly restricted”, the high court has said. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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New guidance on the treatment of trans+ people in #detention is even worse than current guidance, + is rife with #misgendering, erasure + #transphobia. We stand against detention in all its forms, + we oppose this reinforcement of the gender binary in state incarceration. https://buff.ly/3WGvU7Y

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Join us for our Information Session on February 7th, 10:00-11:00 AM & learn more about what we do and how you can get involved as a volunteer! Scan the QR code or follow the link below to register👇 beyonddetentioninformationsessions.eventbrite.co.uk See you there! #VolunteerWithUs

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What would it take to dismantle the hostile environment? Importantly, we should ask ourselves what infrastructures we can build to counter hostility? 💭Join us in this 3 day-long event across London, and we will be speaking at the first event at tomorrow at 5 - 7PM. #HostileEnviornment #Detention

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Great news from @asylumaid.bsky.social Home Secretary has confirmed that the government will repeal the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024! 👊

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Manston detention centre is set to be expanded with more 'purpose-built facility', even though there is an upcoming public inquiry on the inhumane treatment & pending unlawful cases of 96 people who were previously held here It's time to shut it down not upgrade! www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/...

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Event about Cecilia’s personal story of unlawful detention in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre as a powerful call to action on the need for change to the asylum and immigration detention systems. 🎫Thursday 30 January, 6-8pm (1/2) www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/museum/event...

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A moving piece written about, Mark Courtice, who had sadly passed away last year - former chair of Southampton and Winchester Visitors Groups. Mark was a previous visitor with Haslar Visitors Group(Haslar Immigration Detention Centre). Thank you Mark🧡 issuu.com/swvg1/docs/s...

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John Tuckett named as preferred candidate for the role of Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) replacing David Bolt. #ImmigrationDetention #Scrutiny www.gov.uk/government/n...

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“Put yourself in their place. How would you like to be treated if you suddenly woke up & were a refugee, or indeed, an immigration detainee?” Stella is a trustee with @beyonddetention.bsky.social ,visitors group providing vital support to people in Yarl's Wood #detentioncentre tinyurl.com/y7utv9vy

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"The inquiry will be vital to ensure that lessons are learned and any repetition of the crisis at Manston can be avoided" @dlpubliclaw.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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🚨Home Office has settled on the judicial review seeking an independent, Article 3 ECHR-compliant inquiry into events at #Manston in 2022. The Court ordered the Home secretary to: (1) Appoint Chair; (2) Finalize ToR; (3) Set inquiry start date 🗓️ 📙More: freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

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📉 #Deportation hit a record high—But at what cost? The Home Office is celebrating a "success," which is anything but. Let’s call this what it is: a cruel political stunt that uproots lives, fuels systemic racism, and ignores the UK's humanitarian obligations. tinyurl.com/247epxay

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Do you know immigration detention could have lifelong harm on people? Hear first-hand accounts from those with lived experience. Listen to the full episodes by Unchained Collective now and join the conversation: open.spotify.com/show/39Ukk5w...

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⚡[Free Webinar] – Immigration Detention Update: 2024 in Review by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social This webinar will review the key developments in the law of immigration detention in 2024, covering legislation, policy and case law and updates for 2025: tinyurl.com/5fv7ybus #ImmigrationDetention

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💼 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group has an exciting full-time opportunity to join our team working within the casework team, with responsibility of administrative duties and casework support. Closing date for applications is Friday 17th January 2025. www.gdwg.org.uk/news?fbclid=...

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Welcome @ronnietag.bsky.social to🦋 #Bluesky, please follow him and see others to follow in our starter pack of people and organisations with interest in immigration detention - go.bsky.app/EkMTvkS

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This 🎄 2,000+ people will spend the holidays in detention. While we gather with loved ones, thousands endure indefinite detention—isolated, fearful, far from family. This season, give hope to those left behind. 👉Donate: www.aviddetention.org.uk/donate

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“We have no control over our lives here. If we are commanded to stand we stand, if we are commanded to sit we sit. I feel like a bird being kept in a cage.” 60 Tamils became stranded on Diego Garcia were unlawfully detained for 3yrs, a UK judge has found! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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Here is a reality of many families as the current gov increase detention (CW) “I am in Home Office asylum accommodation & have no money to travel and no ID to show the guards at Yarl’s Wood... If I can’t be with my husband I am thinking about killing myself" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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See the evidence on denial of access to justice for Survivors of trafficking 👇 Getting evidence while in immigration detention makes it even more hard If the UK wants to lead the fight against modern slavery, it should ensure that no survivors of trafficking is detained under immigration powers

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Great thread 🧵! We definitely need to learn from our achievements and mistakes - and, crucially, distribute power to people with lived experience of the system. 💭See the speech from our Co-Director with lived experience on some of these points below www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/endi...

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Brazilians are now the 3rd-largest group detained in the UK. Secret deportation flights & ramped-up raids expose the systemic targeting These practices intersect with racial inequity, global disparity, &human rights failures. We need humane solutions, not secrecy www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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🚨 The Bibby Stockholm barge is a stark reminder of quasi-detention's grim reality. Isolating people in such conditions is inhumane and unacceptable. We must unite against these detention spaces & advocate for humane treatment and dignity for all! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Saying it again: if "securing our borders" leads to this, then so much the worse for "securing our borders". Impermissible means taint the ends that they are supposedly necessary for and the burden of proof is on those who claim it can all be done "humanely".

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"We had to sleep on filthy cardboard in the marquee with the children because there was nothing else for us. We were so frightened for our children – that place wasn’t safe for them. The situation in Manston was drastic.” a mother said about #Manston www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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🚨 Manston: A National Shame Chaos, harm, & failure define its approach at Immigration detention centers to human lives. This isn’t just mismanagement—it’s systemic cruelty. Accountability is overdue. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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"So often, the depiction of asylum seekers and refugees is skewed. They are either a threat, or they are helpless victims. Rarely do we hear them tell their own stories. I have always felt that it is crucial that we do" Addressing power while we tell stories of others #LivedExperience is crucial 👏

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🚨Brook House detention Center's health care services stretched to its 'breaking point' a damning report comes just weeks after a man died in this centre. This govt must take this with urgency to halt the expansion of detention and end it for all. #Immigration www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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