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The Supreme Court decision – detaining asylum seekers was unlawful
On 27 November 2019, the Supreme Court gave judgment in R (Hemmati and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] UKSC 56.
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Prosecution of asylum seekers needs to stop
Tara Casey wrote recently, ‘Poverty is not a crime and should never be treated as one’. Likewise, seeking asylum is not a crime, but is too often treated as one.
The American academic Professor Juliet Stumpf described the convergence of criminal and immigration law as ‘crimmigration’. Two recent cases illustrate how harshly asylum seekers may be treated under crimmigration law.
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Outsourcing immigration detention
Last week the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Director, Richard Garside, was quoted in an article in the Financial Times about private companies running immigration detention centres.
He said, 'if the state is going to detain someone, it should be under the auspices of...
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Greek minister's shame at immigration detention
In the current issue of London Review of Books, Daniel Trilling reports on his visit to the notorious Amygdaleza immigration detention centre on the outskirts of Athens.
Last month, the newly-appointed minister for public order, Yannis Panousis, visited Amygdaleza to express his...
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Home Secretary to launch review into welfare of immigration detainees
Theresa May is to launch an independent review into the welfare of immigration detainees, The Guardian reports. The review will be led by former prisons and...
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G4S: getting away with fraud, torture, and arbitrary detention?
The chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge, has lambasted the government for allowing G4S and Serco to bid for outsourcing contracts whilst under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the City of London over overcharging for services provided to the Ministry of Justice,...
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The business of immigration detention
Imogen Tyler, Nick Gill, Deirdre Conlon and Ceri Oeppen in Race & Class discuss the dilemma posed by the cooption of migration and asylum advocacy and support groups into the immigration...
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Serco to be investigated over sex assault claim
Private outsourcing company Serco is to be investigated by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, The Guardian reports. The investigation comes after the...
Comment
Behind the wire at Immigration Removal Centres
Late in 2013 Lib Dem MP, Sarah Teather, challenged the government to...
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The injustices of incarceration
A new report from Women for Refugee Women (WRW) highlights the plight of refugee women locked up in the UK, The Independent reports.
The...