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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy feminists should support the struggle for prison and police abolitionPrisons and police don’t protect women – particularly women of colour – from male violence. In fact they expose them...
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Published in: Shine A Light“Fit to fly?” Woman awaiting spinal surgery is fit to be deported, controversial doctor tells UK Home OfficeJudges have severely criticised medical assessments by Dr John W. Keen and his company NowMedical, but UK...
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Published in: Shine A LightEXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of SanctuarySince Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders...
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Published in: Shine A LightCarlington Spencer: another death in UK immigration detentionLast year six people died in or shortly after transfer from immigration lock-up. Carlington Spencer, held at Morton...
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Published in: Shine A LightHome Office fails Albanian child refugeesOne Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ‘Windrush generation’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ are both our kinAs well as newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin,...
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Published in: Shine A LightAmber Rudd resigns, the anti-migrant machine works onHardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress...
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s hostile immigration regime destroys another familyBritish migration policy forces working class families to choose between country and the people they love.
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Published in: Shine A LightHow lawyers fail migrants in the UKAccess to justice has diminished almost to vanishing point, leaving asylum seekers and irregular migrants at risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK outsourcing experiment: playing with vulnerable livesA review of Alan White’s Who Really Runs Britain? — the private companies taking control of benefits, prisons,...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fearSecurity company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
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Published in: Shine A LightHigh Court blasts ‘outrageous’ assault by Tascor staff on torture survivorHighly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint...
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Published in: Shine A LightFit to run a prison? G4S dodges difficult questionsAt a locked down shareholders’ meeting, security company boss sidestepped hard questions, praised BBC exposé of abuse.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s tough line on immigration punishes British children“To them it’s just another number, someone else being sent back. But when you’ve got three children being left...
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Published in: Shine A LightMoney talks: Meet three people who want to live in the UKGovernment visa fees tell would-be immigrants that in the UK, money talks ...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘If I’d known what to ask for, I wouldn’t have gone hungry’When Theresa May’s Britain grants asylum, a brutal 28 day countdown starts.
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Published in: Shine A LightRefuse, retract, resist: boycott the schools censusAs the British state tries to make a register of foreign-born children, parents should question a liberal trust in...
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Published in: Shine A Light17 plead not guilty over Stansted deportation protestDefendants contest public order charges arising from protest that stopped a Home Office removal flight.
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Published in: Shine A LightBehave or get deported, says G4SEXCLUSIVE: The world’s biggest security company, landlord to asylum-seekers, threatens tenants with expulsion from the UK.
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Published in: Shine A Light5 reasons why we stopped a UKgov deportation flight to Nigeria last nightAs a government ghost flight prepared for take-off, activists intervened.
