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Membership network for volunteer visitors to immigration detention. Helping those detained in removal centres, STHF & prisons across UK.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We have previously wrote to then Home Secretary about why these plans to expand detention should be scrapped.

"If the government continues down this path, it will be a policy failure and a moral catastrophe."

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
Labour’s plan to reopen immigrant detention centres will be disastrous | Letter
Letter: Gee Manoharan says the government should pivot towards community-based alternatives that uphold British values of humanity and justice
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
See this joint letter that we signed alongside 300 orgs to express our support for the UK’s human rights protections to mark the 75th anniversary of the #ECHR

Now is the time for a full-throated defence of the ECHR and HRA.

Read the full letter here 👇
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/almost...
Almost 300 organisations express support for ECHR on 75th anniversary - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
ECHR has protected domestic-violence survivors, disabled people fighting cuts, bereaved families demanding inquests, racialized communities resisting police abuse & people in mental health settings facing neglect.

Don’t be distracted. This is a rights rollback for everyone. tinyurl.com/3namk9ss
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM