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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 [...]

The six Iranian pro-Democracy activists protesting against the Home Office will end their hunger strike today, after 37 days. They will demonstrate outside the head office of Amnesty International (1 Easton St, London WC1X 0DW) at 12 noon, where they will cut the stitches sealing their mouths. The six refugees have now been able to [...]

Young People Seeking Safety is a network of individuals and organisations who have joined together to promote the rights and safety of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK. On Saturday 14 May, YPSS comes to Bristol for an afternoon of discussion, drama, music and poetry. The conference, organised by Bristol Defend the Asylum [...]