NCADC – blog

Serious assault on access to justice We have been warning for some time of an impending disaster.  Over the past couple of years, whenever we have spoken with people (and there are so many) who have struggled to access justice within the asylum and immigration system, who are at risk in their home country yet [...]

Eviction Court Cases Glasgow Sheriff Court Friday 17 May 9.30am Call for solidarity from Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees While the government’s bedroom tax is likely to lead to evictions of people who cannot pay the extra rents, their policy of refusing support to refused refugees who cannot return to their home countries has already [...]

Blog post by NCADC volunteer, Sarah McCarthy. For centuries, hunger strikes have been a powerful form of protest, usually used as a last resort by the most desperate. Currently, over 100 of the remaining 166 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay are engaged in a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention and inhumane treatment. Across the [...]

This is the text of a talk given by Lisa Matthews of NCADC at the 2013 SOAS Detainee Support conference on Saturday 27 April.  The panel was asked to consider: What are the strategic opportunities and risks of advocating for ‘alternatives’ to detention? Should we be promoting existing ‘alternatives’ such as bail, or case management [...]

Theresa May has a bad habit of ruining Sundays.  Sundays are a good day for her populist, racist pandering to the right-wing press to receive a lot of air-time.  Tempting as it is to ignore her attention-seeking power-hungry attempts to fashion her own legacy, her latest intervention in the Article 8-foreign ex-offenders-deportation affair came at [...]

While Christmas is for most people a joyful holiday, for migrants without leave to remain – and those supporting them – it is a time of fear and uncertainty. Charities and other organisations are sadly well-versed in bracing themselves for a sharp rise in demand for crisis services at this time of year, as asylum [...]

A guest post from NCADC supporter Rosa: On Tuesday 30 October, Prince Ofosu died in suspicious circumstances inside Harmondsworth IRC. Throughout this week serious allegations of abuse and maltreatment by detention centre staff have surfaced, leading many to question, what caused his death? The Home Office and private security firm GEO, who are contracted to [...]

In the early hours on 18 October, Fariman Saleh and her family were taken from their home in Cardiff by UKBA.  The dawn raid was filmed by a supporter of the family – it is very distressing to watch. Background WSSAG Wales, one of the many groups supporting the family, provided this information on the [...]

A guest post from NCADC supporter Rosa: Demonstrators mark the two year anniversary of Jimmy Mubenga’s death at the hands of G4S. As further contracts are awarded by the Home Office to private companies the abuse of immigration detainees by the staff of these private contractors continues.   Last week marked the two year anniversary [...]

Sometimes the news isn’t news to any of us. The ‘farcical handling’ of an Afghan asylum seeker’s case?  How many times have we heard that before? The difference this time is that the Afghan asylum seeker was an interpreter who had worked for British forces – and had been injured in a Taliban bomb blast [...]