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About Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook, novelist, journalist, won both the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism in 2010. Clare is a Co-Editor of OurKingdom and co-founder of End Child Detention Now. Her exposé of corruption in the Olympics, The Great Olympic Swindle (co-author Andrew Jennings), was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000.

Articles by Clare Sambrook

Meet G4S, Government’s untouchable friend

Clare Sambrook 15 October 2010
The death of an Angolan man on a deportation flight from the UK highlights the increasingly brutal and unaccountable manner in which the country's borders are policed.

State-sponsored cruelty

Clare Sambrook 13 September 2010

The Liberal Democrats must fight to salvage their promise to end the detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK.

When they said ‘We will end child detention,’ they meant ‘Keep on arresting babies’

Clare Sambrook 19 May 2010
Children are still being detained in the UK immigration system.

Samaranch, Kissinger and the Coca Cola company: a relentless fascist’s curious date with democracy

Clare Sambrook 15 May 2010

Clare Sambrook recalls the day Juan Antonio Samaranch, the leader of the 'Olympic Movement' who died last month, faced allegations of corruption at a US Congressional hearing.

Let’s make sure they really do end child detention now

Clare Sambrook 12 May 2010
If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl's Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must hold them to it

Gordon Brown on child detention

Clare Sambrook 4 May 2010
An exchange between the Prime Minister and campaigners on the question of child detention

Election time: asylum seekers lose their last safety net

Clare Sambrook 26 April 2010

When terrified men, women and children are being shunted off to countries where they face real and imminent risk of rape, torture, genital mutilation or death, an MP’s urgent appeal to government may tip the balance, stalling removal directions, making time to get legal advice.

Surveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world’

Clare Sambrook 13 April 2010

The rapid rise of the security industry with its close links to government has disturbing implications for our freedom.

Has Meg Hillier gone mad?

Clare Sambrook 19 March 2010
The Home Office minister is in la la land over child detention.

Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010

Clare Sambrook 8 March 2010
A shameful case of the imprisonment and deportation of a minor by the UK Borders Agency.

Ed Balls and his iron hat

Clare Sambrook 26 January 2010
The Children, Schools and Families Bill is a stealth attack on liberty

Roll calls, body searches and sex games

Clare Sambrook 17 January 2010

Clare Sambrook on what Parliament isn’t being told about children’s lives inside a UK detention centre

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