Parliamentarians to meet again to discuss immigration detention issues in December 21 October 2011 The Detention Forum is hosting another Parliamentary meeting on immigration detention on 7th December 2011. The meeting will be chaired by Dr Julian Huppert MP. The last meeting in June was attended by 10 Parliamentarians and three researchers who work for… [Read more…]
October 3, 2011
35 NGOs urge the Home Affairs Select Committee not to ignore the issue of unlawful detention 3 October 2011 Today, 35 NGOs have written to the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), urging him to ‘apply scrutiny to the issue of unlawful detention’ in their forthcoming inquiry into asylum and migration. The letter was… [Read more…]
May 6, 2011
36 NGOs urge The Joint Committee on Human Rights to reopen the case on detention – 14 April 2011 36 NGOs are now urging The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) to scrutinise the use of administrative detention as a part of the asylum system in the UK. In their letter to the Chair of the JCHR, Dr Hywel… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
13 parliamentarians and representatives of over 40 NGOs concerned about the state of immigration detention gathered together in the Parliament on 8th Nov 2010. Henry Smith MP, Lord Ramsbotham and Lisa Nandy MP, as well as NGO representatives shared their concerns about those who are held in immigration removal centres across the country. Dr Julian Huppert MP, who chaired… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
0