Mass deportation to West Africa blockaded & resisted by Yarl’s Wood women
Protestors superglued themselves to the gates of Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow airport on Tuesday night, blocking a coach carrying detainees due to be forcibly expelled to Nigeria, Ghana and…
This is only the beginning: Overview of the Week of Action against the Prison Industrial Complex November 2015
From the 31st October to the 8th November 2015, a week of action took place against the prison industrial complex in the UK. A small group of anarchists, working with…
End Detention Weekend – Glasgow
End Detention WeekEND Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12 at 10:00 to 20:00 Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, G411BA (opposite Kinning Park Underground) A group of migrants, refugees,…
Fight against migrant imprisonment heats-up
On Saturday a large demonstration was held at ‘Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre’ in Bedfordshire. This was largest protest yet at a migrant detention center in the UK. Numbers were…
Remembering the dead on the borders
Source: http://rabble.org.uk/remembering-the-dead-on-the-borders/ As has been widely reported in the corporate media, over 800 people were drowned in the Mediterranean last weekend after their boat capsized between Libya and Lampedusa. Just…
Hunger strikes spread to 8 detention centres
As of yesterday (Sunday 15 March) we had heard of hunger strikes and other protests taking place in 8 detention centres across the UK, as prisoners started refusing food in…
Government formally withdraws planning application to extend Campsfield Detention Centre
Source: https://closecampsfield.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/government-agents-formally-withdraw-planning-application/ PRESS RELEASE CGMS consultants, acting for the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, have now written to Cherwell District Council formally withdrawing the planning application to expand Campsfield….
Protests spreading across UK detention centres. Deportation coach blocked at Gatwick.
Source: http://rabble.org.uk/protests-spreading-across-uk-detention-centres-deportation-coach-blocked-at-gatwick/ Tuesday evening 10 March. Rebellion is spreading across the UK’s “gulag archipelago” of migration prisons. Hunger strikes and yard occupations and other protests are now taking place in…
Female detainees at Yarl’s Wood routinely humiliated, claims report
Male staff often invade privacy at immigration detention centre, says charity, and many women already victims of sexual abuse. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/14/female-detainees-yarls-wood-report-privacy-immigration-detention-centre-sexual-abuse?CMP Nineteen of the 38 women interviewed for the report…
Surround Harmondsworth Demonstration
From: https://www.facebook.com/events/749196425154388/ On Saturday 8th November 2014 Movement for Justice will be returning for our fifth demonstration at Harmondsworth & Colnbrook immigration detention centres – where friends and loved ones…
Noise Demonstration 27th June Holloway Prison
The Anti Raids Network invites you and your groups, friends, and family to join us for a noise demonstration outside Holloway HMP, London (N7 0NU) Friday 27th June, 7pm No…
International Day to close Detention Centres
June 15th is International Day to close Detention Centres. Actions are happening all over Europe. See what is happening here. In the UK there is: A protest at Yarl’s Wood Immigration…