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£42million bill to get remove failed asylum seekers: How taxpayer funding for secretive flights has QUADRUPLED in past seven years Graham Smith, The Daily Mail 29 December 2011 The Government has spent £42million on secretive flights to send failed asylum seekers back home, it was revealed today. British taxpayers are forking out a staggering £500,000 [...]

The UK Border Agency went ahead with a mass deportation to Sri Lanka this week. Legal challenges delayed the flight, and some people were removed from the plane, but eventually it took off. It is believed that at least 30 of the 50 people given removal directions were onboard. This week, UK charity Freedom From [...]

The UK government is planning a mass deportation of around 50 Sri Lankan refugees tomorrow, 28 September, despite strong evidence that this action will put many vulnerable people into danger. The private charter – Flight PVT030 at 15:00 hrs on Wednesday 28th September – follows a similar mass removal in June this year, which caused [...]

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, [...]

The deportation charter flight to Sri Lanka took off yesterday evening, 16 June, while deliberations were still underway at the High Court. It is understood that one deportee won their injunction, but not until after the flight was in the air. Another flight is scheduled, and British charity Freedom from Torture (formerly the Medical Foundation) [...]

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 [...]

A London law firm has submitted an application to the High Court seeking an injunction to stop the removal of at least 14 Sri Lankans. The refugees have been refused asylum, and are facing removal on a controversial deportation charter flight tomorrow, Thursday, along with about 50 others. The injunction is on the basis that [...]

The immigration Barrister who blogs as Free Movement has revealed a serious breach of confidentiality of Sri Lankan refugees scheduled for deportation. Ahead of a planned mass expulsion of Sri Lankans from Britain, the UK Border Agency is allowing Sri Lankan officials to interrogate detainees in the UK about their asylum claims, and is passing [...]

“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 [...]

At least 70 Iraqi refugees have been rounded up in the UK over the last few weeks, as the UK government plans a controversial mass deportation charter flight to Baghdad. NCADC has been contacted by several detainees and their friends over the last few days. One such caller was Joanne, from County Durham. She has [...]