Phil Miller is a freelance journalist. Twitter: @pmillerinfo
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDeath of a double agent: British torture and betrayal in 1980s Belize
To stop communism in one of the UK’s last colonies, one man was handed over to a death squad and another was...
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Published in: Shine A Light17 plead not guilty over Stansted deportation protest
Defendants contest public order charges arising from protest that stopped a Home Office removal flight.
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Published in: Shine A LightInquest jury finds failures in detainee healthcare
An MRI brain scan that was wrongly cancelled might have led to life-saving treatment for Bruno Dos Santos, who died...
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Published in: Shine A LightCancelled brain scan could have saved UK immigration detainee
Inquest, Day Four: Neurologist testifies that he might have saved 25 year old Bruno Dos Santos.
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Published in: Shine A LightPeople tied up ‘like animals’ on UK deportation flights
Commercial contractors routinely belt immigration detainees into restraints so extreme that they are rarely used in prisons.
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Published in: Shine A LightFrail 84 year old subjected to ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’, prison ombudsman says
The death of Alois Dvorzak exposes increased shackling of immigration detainees, as commercial contractors fear...