"Having a visitor in detention was a way for me to forget about the walls I was caged in." We are developing a local, grassroot visiting group for Swinderby RSTHF and HMP Mortonhall. ⚡Join our information session to learn more and no commitment required: events.humanitix.com/avid-s-infor...

AVID Information Session - Immigration Detention and The Role of Visitors

An information session for people in Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire about providing support to people in the area who are incarcerated for immigration reasons.

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Immigration detention is failing women - over and over again - and the mounting evidence leaves no room for denial. The Government must act now. Failure to do so is acceptance of a system that causes harm. Read our op-ed with @aviddetention.bsky.social and @sdvisitors.bsky.social 11/11

Immigration detention is failing women – and the prison watchdog’s report leaves no room for denial

The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' latest report confirms what women have been saying for years: immigration detention causes profound harm

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The Government is bypassing local councils to expand Campsfield IRC and reopen Haslar detention centre. As our Co-Director Gee Manoharan told The i Paper: "Immigration detention centres felt like a conveyor belt of harm." Expanding detention doesn't solve anything - It expands the suffering.

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How the Home Office bypassed local councils to expand two immigration centres trib.al/FrTQ063

🥊 British Champion. Represented England six times. Detained twice. Still waiting to belong on paper. Bilal Fawaz was trafficked to the UK as a child. Instead of receiving the protection he needed, he was criminalised, twice detained+threatened with deportation www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Bilal Fawaz: British light-middleweight champion fighting for a British passport

British champion Bilal Fawaz has lived in the UK for more than 20 years but is fighting for British citizenship - his story features in a new BBC documentary.

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An escape from Campsfield isn't the story. The story is that the UK reopened a detention centre with a documented history of riots, abuse and neglect—and now plans to expand it from 160 to 400 places. The answer isn't more security, it is ending immigration detention! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Detainee escapes Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre escort

The Home Office said the detainee absconded on Tuesday.

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🚨URGENT ACTION: There are only 3 DAYS LEFT to submit your objection to the expansion of Campsfield detention centre to the Planning Inspectorate's consultation. ✍️Find out how on our pinned thread or here: tinyurl.com/campsfieldobjection ‼️Send your submission BEFORE July 24 at 23:59!

Thank you to @left-foot-forward.bsky.social for covering this story! Members of our visitor groups networks has said the findings reflect a detention system that repeatedly places administrative convenience above people's safety, dignity, and wellbeing.

Left Foot Forward@left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Women who have experienced immigration detention have been telling us for years that detention deepens trauma, damages mental health, and separates them from the people they love' @4refugeewomen.bsky.social @aviddetention.bsky.social @sdvisitors.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2026/07/immi...

Important thread here on a new thematic review on women in detention from HMIP. Along with @4refugeewomen.bsky.social and @aviddetention.bsky.social we’ve long been concerned about the specific harms to women of immigration detention.

Women for Refugee Women@4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 A new report by HMIP uncovers the systemic failures by the Government to protect women in immigration detention. The report found: ❌ Women’s needs were routinely overlooked ❌ Multiple and repeated safeguarding failures ❌ Harmful and retraumatising practices and much more. Read more 👇 1/🧵

The home secretary’s decision to reduce protections for potential trafficking victims being considered for removal under the “one in, one out” asylum deal was unlawful, a high court judge has ruled. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mahmood’s cutting of protections for UK-France ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal ruled unlawful

Asylum seekers win ruling against home secretary’s reduction of safeguards for potential victims of trafficking

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Mark Nelson came to the UK in 2000, is now detained: “I’m in a hot and filthy cell on the induction wing. My mental health is so bad because of what the Home Office has done to me. For the first time in my life, I have taken antidepressant medication" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jamaican man who has lived in UK for 26 years facing deportation

Case of Mark Nelson, 46, is one of first since new measures were announced in last week’s immigration bill

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A vital report launch by @biddetention.bsky.social next Wednesday hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social A deeply troubling reality: people are being kept in immigration detention simply because there is nowhere for them to be released to. 📅 Register here: gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/report...

Report Launch - ‘No Accommodation, No Freedom: The Impact of Accommodation Delays on Release from Immigration Detention’ | Garden Court Chambers

Join us for the launch of Bail for Immigration Detainees’ new report: ‘No Accommodation, No Freedom: The Impact of Accommodation Delays on Release from Immigration Detention’. The report reveals that ...

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🚨 Robert Jenrick has been rebuked for failing to provide evidence to the Manston Inquiry. If politicians champion detention and deterrence, shouldn't they answer for the consequences? No accountability. No lessons learned. More detention. More harm. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jenrick rebuked for not providing evidence to asylum detention inquiry

Former immigration minister criticised by inquiry chair for failing to give statement about ‘wretched’ Manston site

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We condemn the racist violence targeting migrant and racialised communities in Belfast. We stand in solidarity with those affected and the community groups responding on the ground. Racism is not a solution to violence. Solidarity is. 🧡

“The board felt this risked perceptions of bias or even intimidation among detained people, especially in the light of recent immigration protests in which flag displays were prominent." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Staff at immigration detention centre wore England flags, report finds

Chair of prisons and detention watchdog concerned about intimidating effect as wide-ranging and damning review published

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Powerful stories from participants with experience of immigration detention in police custody this week with @aviddetention.bsky.social. People selected items to tell their stories– A clock: "I lost so much time." Wool: "I couldn't find the end of the thread." A dog: "they treated us like dogs."

1,000 people crossed the Channel this weekend. And govt's response? Extend the cruel “one in, one out” deportation deal People flee war, persecution, trafficking, poverty & genocide — not because of “pull factors” “The government keeps presenting cruelty as competence.” inews.co.uk/news/world/o...

'One in, one out' migrant deal extended – as critics call it cruel and wrong

Asylum seekers and NGOs say the scheme is failing, but French authorities say give it more time

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“...When he found out he had been given a ticket for France, he said he felt so emotionally tired after everything he had been through. We think that is why he tried to end his life. We feel so sorry about what happened to him." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Asylum seeker has deportation ticket cancelled after attempting suicide

Eritrean man was due to be forcibly removed to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme

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Next up, Nabila Islam on the US immigration court under Trump 2.0, including the appointment of military judges, immigration judges being reframed as ‘deportation judges’ on social media, & alternatives to detention. “All these things ICE sold to us as care are just part of the custodial continuum.”

Chiekh Sene & Deanna Dadusc on storytelling criminalisation of migration: resisting borders, prison & colonial legacies. “Boat drivers saved their own lives and other people’s lives too… When invited to speak on borders we’re always asked for testimonies of violence and never as political subjects.”

🏳️‍⚧️ Visitors groups in our network are reporting a disturbing pattern: trans people placed in segregation for most — of their detention. Stephen Shaw review warned about this back in 2016. Next month the Home Office will change its logo to rainbow colours for Pride with utter hypocrisy!

End Deportations Belfast@enddbelfast.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The UK is plummeting down European rankings on LGBTQ+ rights. It was 1st in ILGA rankings in 2015, it is now ranked 22nd out of 49 countries. The UK is performing particularly badly in legal gender recognition, intersex rights and its treatment of LGBTQ+ people seeking protection in the UK. [1/n]

Lastly, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee on political critique and judicial change to family life under Article 8 ECHR, including UK government attempts to tighten the definition of ‘family’ in order to restrict arrivals and appeals. Check out the programme 👉 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Thanks to Border Criminologies for giving us space yesterday. Police cells are becoming an extension of immigration detention — a diffusion of detention into new spaces, yet without the safeguards, support mechanisms, or scrutiny people should have.

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And Gee Manoharan of @aviddetention.bsky.social, on the oversight gaps of immigration detention in police custody, with testimonies collected of claustrophobia, lack of information, cold, inappropriate/ lack of food in cells where people were detained.

No matter who you vote for tomorrow, we should never normalise cages, abuse and violent detention and deporation in our name. Watch this before anyone talks about being “tough” on migrants again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fp0...

BBC Panorama - "Undercover: Britains Immigration Secrets"

YouTube video by Brook House Inquiry

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“I am the first asylum seeker returned to France to receive this rejection. If I return to the UK on a small boat, the Home Office will catch me and put me back in detention. If I go back to Syria, the YPG militia will get me. What should I do?” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Deportation as reality! If more people were made to witness what happens in their name, perhaps the real question would no longer be how to deport more efficiently, but why we continue to accept this cruelty as justice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A brutal wrestle on a plane, passengers outraged, attendants helpless: I saw the UK’s deportation policy at work | Hugh Muir

On the runway at Gatwick, the visceral reality of forced removals was laid bare. If only more could see what is done in our name, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion

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[📺Event] An interesting event about realities of women, girls and gender-diverse people in immigration detention by @idcoalition.bsky.social register here to attend tomorrow: 🗓️ 28 April tomorrow 🕤 9am EDT or 2pm GMT | Online us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨 More detention. More deportations. More violence. The UK is paying French officers to detain and deport people fleeing war — as if expanding enforcement will somehow create safety. It won’t. It will only deepen harm, trauma, and abuse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK to pay for French officers to deport asylum seekers from war-torn countries

Removal site in Dunkirk will hold people of 10 nationalities trying to reach UK in small boats under new £660m deal with French

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We were out today to say ‘Not One More’. Thousands in Belfast showed up to demand an end to gender based violence. Whether this is in the home or in Larne House immigration detention centre, It must be stopped. Thanks as always to ROSA North - Socialist Feminist Movement for organising.

A statement from End Deportations Belfast on news that Invest NI have been funding repressive tech used by US ICE.

Invest NI and ICE: ‘We have a nice little database’.

Invest NI is really proud of Belfast’s growing place in defence industries. On their page they boast: “Northern Ireland is recognised for its commitment to developing world-class innovative technol…

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🚨 People seeking safety are being restrained at the waist & legs on flights under the UK–France “one-in, one-out” deal. Our joint statement warned this last month: excessive force, and deepening harm-all built into the policy itself End the scheme. End detention. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Asylum seekers removed from UK in waist and leg restraints, report finds

Inspection reveals use of force after protest by detainees being deported under ‘one in, one out’ scheme

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