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The government's Rwanda plan is plain cruelty. We stand with all people seeking asylum whose lives and rights are under threat as the Safety of Rwanda Act enters law and the UK-Rwanda treaty is ratified. Take action today and stand against this cruel plan:

Sign the Petition

Stop the Rwanda Flights

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Our application has already been granted to appeal the High Court decision allowing next week's #Rwanda flight. Our appeal will be heard on Monday & our larger legal case against this policy will be heard over the coming weeks. Thanks to all those standing with us.

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Boy writes to judge & @pritipatel to stop his dad's deportation to Jamaica. Priti Patel deports his dad anyway this morning. He was a direct #Windrush descendent #Jamaica50

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🗣️NEWS: Priti Patel is chartering a deportation flight to Zimbabwe next week. Our casework team is once again supporting Black British residents - some who arrived as young as 5 - facing expulsion from the only home they know.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 The High Court has refused our request for an injunction to stop people being sent by force to #Rwanda this Tuesday. We will be making an urgent application to the Court of Appeal. This is only the first step in our legal challenge, made stronger by today's evidence.

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BREAKING: On the #AntiRefugeeBill , MPs have voted 302:232 to grant Priti Patel the power to send people seeking asylum - including children and other especially vulnerable groups - to remote #offshoredetention camps. We will continue to fight this cruelty in the Lords and beyond.

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UPDATE: Joey Bediako has been released! 🥳 That he was ever detained is a scandalous abuse of power. All power to his girlfriend @eternallyamour who has led the campaign to get Joey released 🌟✊and @Duncanlewispublic for speedy work today

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We are taking the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to the High Court, where we plan to challenge her illegal treatment of people at the Manston facility. You can donate to support our legal challenge, here. 1/4

Justice for People Held Inside the Manston Facility

We are a registered charity working to end unjust detention in the UK. Since 1993, we have provided support to people unjustly detained by the government and campaign alongside them for their rights.

www.crowdjustice.com

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Court of Appeal has rejected our appeal, meaning an injunction won't be issued and tomorrow night the Home Secretary can force people seeking asylum on to a plane to #Rwanda . We are disappointed but our larger legal challenge against the policy will be heard in July.

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Sadly the Jamaica deportation flight took off at around 2am last night with 13 people - 37 fewer than @pritipatel planned. In the final hours we were still finding people with no legal help, trafficking indicators & with immediate #Windrush relatives...

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨We are disappointed at this morning's High Court ruling on the lawfulness of the UK-Rwanda deal. However, the courts have found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully in her treatment of 8 individuals targeted by the policy and must reconsider their removal. 1/

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1/3 🚨BREAKING🚨 Fantastic news. With only minutes til the flight to #Rwanda was due to take off, a series of legal decisions - from the High Court, the Court of Appeal & the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) - have seen all people seeking asylum taken off the flight.

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Labour leader @JeremyCorbyn 's New Year's resolution

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JAMAICA DEPORTATIONS - this is how our systemically racist & fundamentally flawed deportation system tears British families apart (pt 1 of 2). A second deportation charter flight to Jamaica is now likely on 2 December - watch this space...

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Today we return to the Royal Courts of Justice. Our appeal will be heard & a decision made on our request for an injunction to stop Priti Patel's planned flight to #Rwanda tomorrow, that would see people seeking asylum sent, by force, 4,000 miles into uncertainty & danger.

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The House of Lords have voted against #offshoredetention in the #AntiRefugeeBill , 208:155. The Government's plans to send people seeking asylum to offshore detention camps will now be considered by MPs, and we must make sure they are scrapped, once and for all 👏

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 1/3 The Divisional Court has agreed to adjourn our legal challenge against the #Rwanda removals policy until September. This is a win for due process & fairness. Individuals affected and our legal teams now have the time they need to prepare their substantial case.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 #UNHCR have intervened in our High Court hearing, with "Serious concerns that asylum seekers transferred from the UK to Rwanda will not have access to fair & efficient procedures... with consequent risks of (being returned to persecution).”

UN agency moves to block Priti Patel’s Rwanda migrant plan

The UNHCR claimed at the High Court that the scheme failed to meet the required standards of 'legality and appropriateness'

www.telegraph.co.uk

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...we were able to fight for them - and many were taken off at the last moment. Thank you to everyone who stood up & took action. Thank you to all our partners who worked up until the last moment. Our work continues @DLPublicLaw @reedsmithllp @followMFJ @BARACUK

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We're at the High Court today, where our urgent injunction request will be heard, deciding whether Priti Patel will force people seeking asylum into a one-way trip to #Rwanda next week. Regardless of the outcome, we'll continue our larger legal challenge against this policy.

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BREAKING: COURT OF APPEAL RULING PREVENTS JAMAICA DEPORTATIONS #Jamaica50 #Windrush

Court of Appeal ruling prevents Jamaica deportations

"On the basis of this order from our Court of Appeal we do not believe that anyone currently detained at the Heathrow detention centres can be removed on tomorrow’s flight..."

detentionaction.org.uk

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This is embarrassing. You only took action to protect detained people when we filed litigation, as your disclosures in our case made abundantly clear. Stop trolling NGOs and start implementing the #Windrush recommendations.

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@DetentionAction This is misleading. The welfare of detainees & staff is our utmost priority. That is why we have taken proactive measures to protect detainees against coronavirus since the pandemic started. (1/3)

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Shadow Minister for Labour @LauraPidcockMP ’s New Year’s resolution. Includes some strong words for the government’s Indefinite Detention program

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“Home Sec’s hysterical plea to the navy is as irresponsible as it is ironic. Pushbacks at sea are unlawful and would threaten human lives. No civilised country can even consider this - @BellaSankey

UK plan to use navy to stop migrant crossings is unlawful, lawyers warn

Home secretary told MPs she obtained legal advice that sending in the navy would be permitted

www.theguardian.com

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“We’re hearing reports tonight that in centres not covered by this order the gov’t is trying to remove people. I heard of someone whose grandmother was on a Windrush boat, who has not even spoken to a lawyer, that they are trying to put on a plane as we speak” @BBCNewsnight

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"You do not know us" @pritipatel uses voice of #Windrush victims & campaigners to attack Black public figures speaking out on Jamaica mass deportation. 13 #Windrush campaigners respond: @JacquiMckenzie6 @WindrushLives @GlendaCaesar @DESJADDOO @Jermone95 @BARACUK @MirandaGrell

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"In law, and I'm telling you this as someone with legal expertise, there's no obligation for someone to claim asylum in any country other than the one where they feel safe." 👏👏👏

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Bella Sankey, director of Detention Action, says asylum seekers crossing the UK in small boats are not breaking the law, telling Julia: "That is actually a myth.” Watch in full ► @JuliaHB1 | @BellaSankey | @DetentionAction

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BREAKING: On Monday 1 November, an urgent, pre-action letter was sent to the Home Secretary on behalf of the charity Detention Action and an individual held at the Manston. (1/7)

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"Activist lawyers, what activist lawyers?" Over 50% of asylum seekers @ukhomeoffice removed last Summer had no lawyer. Many others got poor advice. Access to justice is a human right. These stats are a scandal. Thanks for this vital reporting @mattuthompson & @mrjamesob .

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Priti Patel will not attempt to send people to #Rwanda by force until September. The decision not to defy the courts follows the adjournment of our legal challenge to the policy and Patel's entry into the Conservative leadership contest.

Rwanda migrant flights paused for Tory leadership contest

Preparations for a second migrant flight to Rwanda have been put on hold until after the Conservative Party has elected a new prime minister, officials have tol

www.thetimes.co.uk

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22 asylum seekers in Brook House are on hunger strike. 8 have attempted to take their lives rather than be deported. What does it say about us that this is how we treat the world's most vulnerable, when they come to us looking for help? More from @BellaSankey & @BBCLondonNews :

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Priti Patel's cruel mass deportation to #Iraq has been cancelled. With less than 12 hours to go, the Home Office called off the flight, following dedicated work from campaigners, activists and the families of those targeted. A huge thank you to all our supporters.

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@Jules_Allen_ @BellaSankey @JCWI_UK One way to help is to email the CEOs of the airlines who are likely to be operating the flight, calling on them to pull out:

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NEWS: We've been taking referrals for the #Jamaica50 mass deportation for the past few days. People who have been in the UK for 20 or 30 + years or most of their lives. People who came to the UK as toddlers, young children or teenagers & have no links to Jamaica...

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🚨BREAKING🚨 The Home Secretary has provided us with an assurance that no one will be removed to #Rwanda before 10 May. For justice to prevail & people's rights to be protected, it is crucial we get assurance that no one will be removed until our full case is heard in court.

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"34 of us share 1 shower & 1 toilet. There's no privacy. No-one can sleep because there's too much noise... [it's] unbearable" Another shameful day for @pritipatel 's Home Office. Everything from COVID safety to basic humanity thrown to the wind. @BBCNews

Folkestone's Napier Barracks asylum seekers stage protest

Some asylum seekers have refused food and slept outdoors in freezing conditions, a charity says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Home Office is trying to deport former British Army soldier @ReneTrevor . This is his heart-breaking story Watch full film:

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2/2 Together, we will continue to oppose this policy and will discuss with our legal team our next steps and the possibility of an appeal. Thank you to all who have supported our challenge for standing with the men, women and children seeking asylum in our communities.

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UPDATE: people being detained ahead of likely deportation charter flight to Jamaica on 2 December. This will tear families apart, likely separating loving parents from children & deporting people who lived here since childhood, on the basis of a systemically racist...

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🚨BREAKING: The House of Lords votes against #offshoredetention in the #AntiRefugeeBill , 176:153. They're pushing for the Home Secretary to tell Parliament - & the public - in what country she plans to build detention camps & how much it would cost, before she gains that power 👏

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. @british_airways tmrw Joey Badiako will be expelled from the UK on one of your planes. He’s eligible to apply for EU settled status but he’s been taken into detention & prevented. We'd love to talk more about Joey's case & why we hope you #refusetofly Joey tomorrow.

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JAMAICA DEPORTATIONS LATEST - court order has blocked deportation of those held in Heathrow detention centres. BUT situation of those held in Brook House detention centre is unclear. Stand by for more...

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NEWS - High Court orders that by 4pm on Wednesday @ukhomeoffice must tell us: 1. How many are still detained under immigration powers? 2. How many detained are liable for removal to countries currently not accepting UK arrivals? 3. How many vulnerable adults are still detained?

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"We're disappointed that the High Court has found the removal of refugees to an autocratic state which tortures and kills people is lawful. The Rwanda policy is brutal and harmful and we will now consider an appeal against today's judgment." James Wilson, Deputy Director, DA

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🚨BREAKING🚨 We're taking Priti Patel to the High Court, challenging her plan to punish people for seeking asylum. Less than a week before she forces people seeking asylum on to a plane to #Rwanda , we're asking for an injunction to keep the plane grounded.

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Following our legal action, Priti Patel has finally revealed key information on how she'll punish people seeking asylum by sending them to #Rwanda , incl. a harrowing record of human rights abuses in the country. Only unaccompanied kids are fully exempt. Our legal fight continues.

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1/ 🚨 CALL TO ACTION - @pritipatel is chartering another mass expulsion flight to Jamaica next Wednesday to deport up to 50 people incl many who have grown up in the UK (from nursery upwards). We are supporting several affected people who are in detention

Jamaicans who came to Britain as children face deportation within days

More than 30 people — many of whom have been in UK for over 20 years — detained for forcible removal

www.independent.co.uk

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3/3 Our legal challenge against the Rwanda policy will be heard by the High Court in July, testing whether or not the policy is unlawful and puts people's rights at risk. You can donate to our legal challenge & campaigning here.

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(TW: suicide) We have been informed that a person has died by suicide at one of the detention centres at Heathrow. Our hearts are with their family and loved ones. If you/someone you know is in immigration detention & needs help, direct them to our helpline: 0800 587 2096

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2/3 In a very rare intervention by the ECHR - which intervenes only where there is a risk of serious human rights violations - the court stated that 2 of those on the flight should not be sent by force to Rwanda until the legality of the policy is tested by our legal challenge.

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. @ukhomeoffice didn’t win a single deportation case yesterday. This shows how “frequently and casually” they embark on unlawful action, & how much lawyers are needed to defend against these abuses of power. More from @BellaSankey @FT :

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📢📢📢 NEWS: We're taking @pritipatel & @Kent_cc to court for failing to protect refugee children. If you're concerned by kids being detained at our border & then sent to live alone in hotels pls read this 🧵 & consider donating to our legal action here:

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🗣️"No one opposing this flight condones any of the crimes these individuals have been found guilty of, it's the process of mass deportation which is fundamentally wrong" @BellRibeiroAddy 👏👏👏

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@pritipatel If you oppose these cruel, ineffective and extortionately costly plans, you can sign our action and email your MP, calling on them to vote against these proposals next week:

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Our Director, @BellaSankey , on @BBCNews laying out the effective, humane and necessary measures this Government could put in place to prevent more tragedies in the Channel. Our thoughts are with those lost today, as well as their families and friends.

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If you are able to make a donation to our ongoing legal challenge and campaign against the #Rwanda plan, we would welcome your support in this fight.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Our request for an injunction to stop the imminent #Rwanda flight will be heard in the High Court tomorrow. We believe the legality of the policy must be tested before the Home Secretary forces people seeking asylum onto a plane to East Africa.

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The suffering & abuse that took place in Australia's offshore detention centres is utterly harrowing. Is @pritipatel ignorant of this, or does she just not care? @BellaSankey for @SkyNews :

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Home Secretary has only taken steps to address her serious failures at Manston after our urgent legal challenge and widespread, public condemnation. We are still concerned that the problems we saw at Manston are likely to be repeated.

Manston migrant centre empty after 6,000 asylum seekers sent to hotels

Robert Jenrick ordered removals after warnings facility was unlawfully overcrowded

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Is this your idea of fair and compassionate? Tell Priti Patel to protect refugee children and end child detention - sign the petition now

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Today's court hearing reveals that grave concerns about the #Rwanda policy were raised within UK government before & after it was announced. This policy is a moral & political failure. Anyone aspiring to become Prime Minister should disown it.

Government officials told Priti Patel not to do deal with Rwanda, court hears

Court documents reveal that Home Office shared draft of document declaring Rwanda safe with country’s government

www.independent.co.uk

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4 years

DEPORTATIONS LATEST: We're hearing people detained at Brook House have evidence about phone signal outage & access to justice problems. We understand they want to make legal representations by are being stopped by guards. Gov MUST cancel this flight immediately #Jamaica50

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1/2 🚨BREAKING🚨 The House of Lords have voted 221:216 against the amendment to the #AntiRefugeeBill that would have introduced checks to prevent the transfer of people seeking asylum to #Rwanda or any other country where their human rights would likely be at significant risk.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 “The late cancellation of the mass deportation to #Iraq exposes how, in pursuing cheap political points, Priti Patel has failed to respect people’s basic rights or show basic competence in international diplomacy.” @BellaSankey in @guardian

Home Office cancels flight to deport Kurdish failed asylum seekers to Iraq

Campaigners against flight say Kurdish Iraqis had endured ‘unnecessary torture in pursuit of headlines’

www.theguardian.com

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BREAKING - 90 high profile public figures warn of systemic racism @ukhomeoffice & oppose pre-Christmas mass deportation of Black British residents to Jamaica They urge companies to decline involvement: @TUIUK @hifly_airline @my_CWT @evelopair @AirTanker TITAN Airways #Windrush

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Together, we've pressured gov't into 350 releases, system-wide case reviews, & near complete hold on new detentions. These are unprecedented victories for detained people, & reasons to hope. Our fight won't stop until all are safe & free from detention.

High court rejects call to free 736 detainees at risk from coronavirus

Judges say Home Office has addressed dangers in immigration detention centres

www.theguardian.com

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The first stage of our landmark legal challenge against this Government's #Rwanda plan - brought with @pcs_union and @Care4Calais - will be heard in the High Court from 5 September. The High Court will hand down its decision in October. 1/2

Rwanda policy High Court challenge to be heard in September

Lord Justice Lewis said there will be two hearings, with the first starting on September 5.

www.independent.co.uk

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This week, we're returning to the High Court to challenge the lawfulness of Priti Patel's refugee removal deal with #Rwanda . From today, we'll be sharing updates from the court, so stay tuned. You can donate to our campaigning & legal costs here:

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🚨 BREAKING: The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the UK-Rwanda removals agreement is unlawful. 🚨 Please follow for further comment.

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"Everyone agrees that criminality is wrong, but how can it be right to separate families, partners & children basically permanently? It's perfectly understandable that certain communities feel like they're being punished twice." @BellaSankey on @bbcbigquestions yesterday.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Kate Eves, Chair of the Brook House Inquiry into abuses against people at that immigration detention centre in 2017, has recognised the harm caused by indefinite detention and calls for the Government to introduce a 28 day time limit on immigration detention. 1/3

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We believe @hifly_airline are operating tonight's forced deportation flight to Nigeria & Ghana. Hi Fly are profiting from pain, tearing mums & grandmothers from their children & grandkids and sending a gay man into serious danger. Take action here.

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. @pritipatel says her new asylum plans will protect refugees. Let's judge her on her record: ✔️Shut down legal routes to the UK for many refugees incl. children ✔️Spread misinformation about asylum statistics ✔️Drawn up illogical, cruel laws that violate the Refugee Convention

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BREAKING: "the High Court has found the Home Secretary acted both unlawfully & irrationally in accommodating our clients at Napier Barracks" Amazing work by @dpg_law 👏 confirming @pritipatel can't be trusted with refugees' wellbeing & safety. @BBCNews :

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“The hostile environment introduced by Theresa May is a cancer at the heart of society” @theSNP Home Affairs Spokesperson @joannaccherry 's New Year’s resolution:

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This Government locks people away in immigration detention indefinitely, hidden from the public. With Allies for Justice, @ladbible and @benandjerrysUK , we brought this injustice into the light, using billboards to share the words of those who have survived immigration detention.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 With @PCS_Union , @DLPublicLaw & @Care4Calais , we've brought a legal challenge against @pritipatel 's cruel plan to send people seeking asylum to #Rwanda . The secrecy surrounding her policy puts people at risk & denies the public full oversight.

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Burning the midnight oil here at Detention Action. Fantastic news that the stay on Jamaica deportations stays in place after Gov lost its appeal against. There's going to be a lot of relieved people who faced unjust removal + their families across the UK #Jamaica50 #Windrush

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“In an already challenging festive period … we ask you to reflect on whether the operation of this flight would comply with your corporate social responsibility values” #WindrushScandal @TUIUK @hifly_airline @my_CWT @evelopair @AirTanker TITAN Airways

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Thanks to @jeremycorbyn for standing up for Tayjay today! "Does the PM think that someone who came to this country at the age of 5 - was the victim of county lines grooming, compelled to carry drugs, released five years ago and never re-offended - deserves to be deported?"

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Everyone is talking about #Djokovic , but he's detained in a hotel with #refugees who have now spent *eight years* in detention, simply for seeking asylum in Australia. Meet Mehdi. This is the reality of #offshoredetention .

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Yesterday, UNHCR @Refugees intervened in our first High Court hearing & shared damning evidence against the Government's #Rwanda plan, calling it unlawful. Now, @hrw have published their criticism of the policy, based on their research in Rwanda itself.

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We are stunned and relieved that the UK’s Court of Appeal has recognised the unlawfulness of this Government’s controversial and dangerous deal with the Rwandan regime. We are proud to stand alongside the men targeted by this policy in their successful legal appeal.

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After last night's incredible outcome, today we'll be checking on anyone we support who is targeted by the #Rwanda plan. We'll review what this landmark intervention by the courts means for the policy as a whole. And we'll look ahead to our major High Court challenge in July.

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"I've been speaking to one young man with two young children & a pregnant partner. They're understandably devastated that they're going to lose him potentially forever" @BellaSankey for @BBCRadioLondon

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UPDATE: High Court has ordered Gov to respond to our #COVID19 immigration detention legal challenge by 6pm TODAY. Let's all keep the pressure up together. Keep signing, keep sharing, keep fighting

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UPDATE: flight still going ahead as planned tomorrow. New suspect is #privilegestyle . Find them on instagram @privilegestyle_airlines . Let's apply some pressure & ask them to act with humanity this Christmas.

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Hi @Nigel_Farage we've got a fundraiser going, could you take a pop at us too?

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1/2 🚨BREAKING🚨 The #AntiRefugeeBill will be passed by the House of Commons and receive Royal Assent, bringing its assault on the rights of migrants, refugees & people seeking asylum into law. This includes sweeping new powers allowing the Home Secretary to expel men, women...

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2/2 This paves the way for Priti Patel to gain the power to expel people seeking asylum - including #refugees - to an uncertain future in #Rwanda . Now, we'll be taking our campaign to prevent this cruel, ineffective and costly policy to the next level. Watch this space.

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We are devastated to hear the news that unaccompanied asylum seeking children are regularly being abducted by traffickers from hotels. These children should be cared for and protected instead of being subjected to dangerous conditions. (1/)

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4 years

This is child immigration detention in 2020 in the UK. We all have to take action to stop it now 👇

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2 years

BREAKING: PM #BorisJohnson plans to send men seeking asylum in the UK - most of whom will be found to be #refugees - to #offshoredetention camps in #Rwanda . At the same time, the UK currently gives asylum to Rwandan refugees fleeing political persecution. Full comment tomorrow.

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5 years

MP @TulipSiddiq is uniting Labour, Conservatives, SNP, DUP and Lib Dem MPs to END INDEFINITE DETENTION once for all

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3 years

It's starting to work. Opposition is growing to Priti Patel's detention camps. Help keep up the pressure - send an urgent message to your MP now 👇

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3 years

"I've had mothers on the phone to me all week telling me horror stories about their children bed wetting, banging their heads against the wall, crying continuously. These are British citizen children who have not been given any opportunity to make their feelings & views known"

Channel 5 News

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3 years

'That's not what Britain is about.' In the early hours of this morning, 13 people were deported from the UK to Jamaica on a charter flight. The Home Office said they were dangerous criminals but @BellaSankey of @DetentionAction told us they should face justice, not deportation.

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5 years

Hands up if you want to end indefinite immigration detention! The latest addition to the cause is our Director Bella's daughter, born just a few days ago & already fighting for fundamental human rights

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4 years

URGENT: charter flight to Jamaica scheduled and many are without access to their lawyers. Tweet your MP and the Home Office now!

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2 years

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We're deeply alarmed at reports of a violent attack on people seeking asylum held at a processing centre in Dover this morning. We are relieved that, according to reports, no one inside has been seriously hurt. 1/2

Man firebombs migrant processing centre in Dover before killing himself

Police have confirmed suspect was found dead soon after attack

www.independent.co.uk

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2/3 Until the lawfulness of the policy is fully tested in the courts, this Government should not attempt any forced removals to Rwanda, as they have threatened. We also call for all people seeking asylum targeted by this policy to be released from detention, with proper support.

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