British boy, 6, to be sent to Congo in divorce row Schoolboy’s mother ordered...
By JO STEELE – Monday, November 16, 2009 www.metro.co.uk A boy of six who was born in Britain faces being sent to a war-ravaged part of Africa because his parents split up. Adrian Atkinson’s mother,...
View ArticleGuardian reveals shocking mistreatment of asylum claimants by UKBA
The Guardian newspaper in its online edition, carries a report by Diane Taylor and Hugh Muir highlighting the shocking allegations of a former caseworker, at the UKBA office in Cardiff. The former UKBA...
View ArticleWelsh Refugee Council urgent call to stop detention and removal of 14 year...
A 14 year old orphan has been arrested & detained in Campsfield Immigration Removal centre near Oxford, which exclusively holds adult males, and is due to be deported because the authorities claim...
View ArticleMashal released by judge pending new age determination investigation
Campaigners for the release of young Afghani orphan Mashal Jabari were delighted to hear that following a judicial review being lodged the judge agreed the following interim measures: until another...
View ArticleNo reprieve for Sehar as UKBA threatens to separate mother and baby on 9 hour...
As the government announces that Dungavel will no longer be used for the detention of children, but will be re-purposed as ‘a health check’ facility for families who are facing removal, young mother...
View ArticleGovernment turns its back on hundreds of requests to save Sehar: Friends from...
This is the text of Positive Action’s Statement to Supporters of the Sehar must stay in Scotland campaign. We made a last minute plea this morning at 8.30 am to all the key players including Deputy...
View ArticleRushed deportations are not the answer to family detention
The New Statesman reports on a BBC investigation that government pilots involving 113 families in London and the North-West had given families with children just two weeks to voluntarily leave the...
View ArticleAustralia to deport hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees to Malaysian...
Disturbing news from Australia reveals that Julia Gillard, the Welsh born Australian Prime Minister, intends to send hundreds of asylum seekers, including many unaccompanied children, to a Tenko-style...
View ArticleG4S Under Fire
Two new reports published last week contain damning criticisms of the immigration services provided by private security company G4S. We are nearing the completion of the new ‘pre-departure...
View ArticleMost children detained in UK ‘pre-departure accommodation’ held for more than...
Despite coalition government pledges that the new ‘pre-departure accommodation’ in the Sussex village of Pease Pottage would be used as a ‘last resort’ and that children would normally be held for less...
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