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Gladys Mabvira is an opposition activist from Zimbabwe.  Despite the enormous risks she would face if returned to Zimbabwe, she has time and again been issued with removal directions by the Home Office.  Only her strength in adversity and last minute legal actions kept Gladys with us here in the UK.   She has this morning [...]

NCADC welcomes today’s report  from the Home Affairs Select Committee, which raises concerns that the potentially lethal ‘head-down’ restraint technique is used during enforced removals, that racist language is used by escort staff, that there are too many escorts used in operations, and that risk assessments focus on the risk to escort staff rather the [...]

Uche is a gay Nigerian man who arrived in the UK in 2005. Released in late 2011 from nearly two years in immigration detention, he is still fighting deportation to Nigeria.   His friend and supporter, Bryony Whitmarsh, and Paul Canning of LGBT Asylum News, tell his story below – a story that reveals just [...]

In Monday’s newsletter we highlighted an article by Dr Paquita de Zulueta on the importance of ensuring that asylum seekers and undocumented migrants retain access to primary care, calling on her colleagues to “overcome bureaucratic barriers and register patients irrespective of their residential status.” Dr Zulueta volunteers at Doctors of the World, Project:London, a humanitarian [...]

The UK Government must conduct a complete and radical overhaul of the current system of enforced removals from the UK, according to a new briefing and campaign launched today (7 July) by Amnesty International UK. Private security companies, contracted by the UK Government, have reportedly used dangerous and improper control and restraint techniques. In the [...]

No Borders press release, 21 June Update: blockade ended peacefully at 9pm with no arrests Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London this evening. 30 angry protesters from No Borders, [...]

Update 21 June, 17:15 – News just in that an injunction has stopped the flight. More details as they come in. The UK government is planning a mass expulsion of mostly Kurdish refugees to Baghdad on Tuesday 21 June, at 23:00 hours. Campaigners, lawyers and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees have all raised [...]

“We are 23 Iraqi and 14 Afghan detainees being held at Campsfield House. The British Government want to send us back to Iraq and Afghanistan. it is not a safe place.” Guest blog from NCADC volunteer, Liam Docherty In recent weeks the government has detained at least 70 Iraqi asylum seekers, in preparation for a [...]

Amidst ongoing repression of protest in the northern Iraq Kurdish Regional Government area, and United Nations fears over Iraq’s capacity to deal with mass returnees of Iraqi refugees from Syria, a campaign has been launched to oppose forcible returns of Iraqis from the UK. The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has issued a statement and [...]

The high street store Lush Cosmetics has teamed up with No One Is Illegal  and local campaign groups across the UK for a week-long national campaign. From Friday 20th to Friday 27th of May, customers will be given a free NOII newspaper and invited to sign the No One Is Illegal Declaration: “People should be [...]