AVIDdetention
@aviddetention.bsky.social
Membership network for volunteer visitors to immigration detention. Helping those detained in removal centres, STHF & prisons across UK.
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Here is a very short list(Starter pack) of people/researchers/ organisations to follow on @bsky.app
But if you can think of someone to add, let us know or comment under this list.
Looking for anyone/organisation who posts about Immigration detention in the UK.
go.bsky.app/EkMTvkS
But if you can think of someone to add, let us know or comment under this list.
Looking for anyone/organisation who posts about Immigration detention in the UK.
go.bsky.app/EkMTvkS
On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care.
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed: Screening of Removed
Monday 17th November, 6-7:30 PMCentre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, St Cross RoadJoin us next
www.law.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care.
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Govt pushing for “tough” asylum plans,but the real danger is the move to rewrite how UK courts apply the ECHR.This won’t stop at deportation cases
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Govt pushing for “tough” asylum plans,but the real danger is the move to rewrite how UK courts apply the ECHR.This won’t stop at deportation cases
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"Brook House is a 'money machine,' so they have a vested interest in you staying, not leaving.
A Ghanaian man describes his experience at the #immigration detention centre run by British private security multinational Serco.
Read this analysis from @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
A Ghanaian man describes his experience at the #immigration detention centre run by British private security multinational Serco.
Read this analysis from @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Drugs, violence and profit: Inside Britain’s Brook House detention centre
At the UK's Brook House, migrants describe being trapped in a system driven by profit rather than policy — a place where private companies earn more the longer people are kept in limbo, a new investig...
euobserver.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Brook House is a 'money machine,' so they have a vested interest in you staying, not leaving.
A Ghanaian man describes his experience at the #immigration detention centre run by British private security multinational Serco.
Read this analysis from @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
A Ghanaian man describes his experience at the #immigration detention centre run by British private security multinational Serco.
Read this analysis from @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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📣 Event alert!
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📣 Event alert!
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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The judgement builds on case law surrounding powers of immigration detention + consequent immigration bail. These powers can only be applied where there is some prospect of removal.
Now the High Court has extended the application of these principles to the exercise of electronic monitoring powers.
Now the High Court has extended the application of these principles to the exercise of electronic monitoring powers.
In case you missed it: High Court clarifies the limits of electronic monitoring immigration bail powers | Jonah Mendelsohn
High Court clarifies the limits of electronic monitoring immigration bail powers - Free Movement
The High Court has ruled on the limits of immigration bail powers in the context of electronic monitoring conditions where there is no prospect of the Home
freemovement.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The judgement builds on case law surrounding powers of immigration detention + consequent immigration bail. These powers can only be applied where there is some prospect of removal.
Now the High Court has extended the application of these principles to the exercise of electronic monitoring powers.
Now the High Court has extended the application of these principles to the exercise of electronic monitoring powers.
📺An event for people in #Belfast to attend tonight!
Aminata Kolokoh - our Senior Outreach Coordinator will join this panel to showcase our joint animation about the reality of being detained.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remov...
Aminata Kolokoh - our Senior Outreach Coordinator will join this panel to showcase our joint animation about the reality of being detained.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remov...
Removed: how does it feel to be detained in immigration detention? | Events | Festival of Social Science
Join this session at the Queen's Film Theatre (QFT), where attendees can watch the short animated film Removed looking at immigration detention, followed by opportunity to hear…
festivalofsocialscience.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📺An event for people in #Belfast to attend tonight!
Aminata Kolokoh - our Senior Outreach Coordinator will join this panel to showcase our joint animation about the reality of being detained.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remov...
Aminata Kolokoh - our Senior Outreach Coordinator will join this panel to showcase our joint animation about the reality of being detained.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remov...
🚨This Thursday, 16 October at 9.30am, Home Affairs Select Committee will question Border Security Commander on work of the Border Security Command, questions will also include ‘one in, one out’ deal with France.
📺Watch here: committees.parliament.uk/event/25149/...
📺Watch here: committees.parliament.uk/event/25149/...
16 October 2025 - Border security and irregular migration: The work of the Border Security Command - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
09:00 - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
committees.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🚨This Thursday, 16 October at 9.30am, Home Affairs Select Committee will question Border Security Commander on work of the Border Security Command, questions will also include ‘one in, one out’ deal with France.
📺Watch here: committees.parliament.uk/event/25149/...
📺Watch here: committees.parliament.uk/event/25149/...
“The agreement between the UK and France will go down as a dark chapter in history because it has abandoned us completely"
Visitor groups are already seeing immense harm under this scheme - it should be scrapped immediately.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Visitor groups are already seeing immense harm under this scheme - it should be scrapped immediately.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Human rights groups call for France to suspend ‘one in, one out’ treaty with UK
UK and French organisations file legal challenge against July agreement to swap asylum seekers
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“The agreement between the UK and France will go down as a dark chapter in history because it has abandoned us completely"
Visitor groups are already seeing immense harm under this scheme - it should be scrapped immediately.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Visitor groups are already seeing immense harm under this scheme - it should be scrapped immediately.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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In the run up to @righttoremain National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on the 18th of October, Rainbow Migration and Beyond Detention are collaborating for this event. Grab your tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/30410/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In the run up to @righttoremain National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on the 18th of October, Rainbow Migration and Beyond Detention are collaborating for this event. Grab your tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/30410/...
People of #Scotland - one of our network member @sdvisitors.bsky.social is the only organisation to provide vital support and solidarity to people detained at Dungavel detention center.
Please consider supporting their emergency appeal to raise funds:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/emergency-15
Please consider supporting their emergency appeal to raise funds:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/emergency-15
Emergency appeal
Help us to continue our vital work, supporting people detained by the immigration service in Dungavel
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
People of #Scotland - one of our network member @sdvisitors.bsky.social is the only organisation to provide vital support and solidarity to people detained at Dungavel detention center.
Please consider supporting their emergency appeal to raise funds:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/emergency-15
Please consider supporting their emergency appeal to raise funds:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/emergency-15
“It is unfortunate that the appellant went on to suffer two cardiovascular attacks having refrained from going for health checks,” the judge said, adding that George has been destitute while in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Disabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportation
Anthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“It is unfortunate that the appellant went on to suffer two cardiovascular attacks having refrained from going for health checks,” the judge said, adding that George has been destitute while in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Hear Fessahaye's story: he fled torture and slavery, only to be detained in the UK and threatened with removal under the new asylum deal. Detention is harsh, harmful, and wholly unsuitable for those fleeing war, torture, and persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hear Fessahaye's story: he fled torture and slavery, only to be detained in the UK and threatened with removal under the new asylum deal. Detention is harsh, harmful, and wholly unsuitable for those fleeing war, torture, and persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
💼Join this incredible team to challenge immigration detention and support those held in Colnbrook and Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Center.
#Jobalert - learn more below:
#Jobalert - learn more below:
We're #hiring!
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply:
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply:
Join our team | JRS UK
Join our team to help make a difference to the lives of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
jrsuk.net
September 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
💼Join this incredible team to challenge immigration detention and support those held in Colnbrook and Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Center.
#Jobalert - learn more below:
#Jobalert - learn more below:
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Join our team! 💙
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply: jrsuk.net/work-with-us
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply: jrsuk.net/work-with-us
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Join our team! 💙
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply: jrsuk.net/work-with-us
JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply: jrsuk.net/work-with-us
"Detention is being normalised. Removals are happening faster. Rights are harder to access. One in, one out – but everyone loses. It is a high-speed pipeline for expulsion"
Our concerns about the UK Government’s newly operational “one-in, one-out” policy
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/pres...
Our concerns about the UK Government’s newly operational “one-in, one-out” policy
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/pres...
[Press Release] “One in, one out – but everyone loses”: AVID raises concern over the new governement policy
Government plays numbers game as suicidality, and human-rights warnings pile up in UK detention system.
www.aviddetention.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"Detention is being normalised. Removals are happening faster. Rights are harder to access. One in, one out – but everyone loses. It is a high-speed pipeline for expulsion"
Our concerns about the UK Government’s newly operational “one-in, one-out” policy
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/pres...
Our concerns about the UK Government’s newly operational “one-in, one-out” policy
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/pres...
Thank you to the Casework Solidarity Forum for providing a space to connect, learn from and support each other in an increasingly challenging environment. We were able to hear and speak about how to manage capacity, how we can mobilise as a sector against racism and how to care for each other.
July 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thank you to the Casework Solidarity Forum for providing a space to connect, learn from and support each other in an increasingly challenging environment. We were able to hear and speak about how to manage capacity, how we can mobilise as a sector against racism and how to care for each other.
🕯️ Remembering Alfred Dosku🕯️
Last week, we had sat through 5-days inquest into his death. The jury read out their verdict as 'Suicide'.
Just one week after arriving at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, Alfred was found with a ligature around his neck(09th November 2023). (1/2)
Last week, we had sat through 5-days inquest into his death. The jury read out their verdict as 'Suicide'.
Just one week after arriving at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, Alfred was found with a ligature around his neck(09th November 2023). (1/2)
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
🕯️ Remembering Alfred Dosku🕯️
Last week, we had sat through 5-days inquest into his death. The jury read out their verdict as 'Suicide'.
Just one week after arriving at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, Alfred was found with a ligature around his neck(09th November 2023). (1/2)
Last week, we had sat through 5-days inquest into his death. The jury read out their verdict as 'Suicide'.
Just one week after arriving at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, Alfred was found with a ligature around his neck(09th November 2023). (1/2)
This 👇
⚠️Immigration detention is not safe for anyone, but #LGBTQI+ people are at even higher risk of harm from homophobic abuse and bullying.
📢Join us in calling on this government to end LGBTQI+ detention today: bit.ly/3GX6T3w
📢Join us in calling on this government to end LGBTQI+ detention today: bit.ly/3GX6T3w
July 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This 👇
🚨 Squalid. Unsafe. Inhumane.
That’s how HMP Pentonville is described in a new Urgent Notification by @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social
💥 28% of imprisoned are non-British nationals.
📊 AVID’s FOI: 10 people on average are held under immigration powers.
We don’t need new prisons. We need a new approach.
That’s how HMP Pentonville is described in a new Urgent Notification by @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social
💥 28% of imprisoned are non-British nationals.
📊 AVID’s FOI: 10 people on average are held under immigration powers.
We don’t need new prisons. We need a new approach.
On Wednesday, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons wrote to Shabana Mahmood invoking an Urgent Notification for HMP Pentonville.
Read the letter and inspection debrief: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repo...
And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/many-pr...
Read the letter and inspection debrief: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repo...
And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/many-pr...
July 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🚨 Squalid. Unsafe. Inhumane.
That’s how HMP Pentonville is described in a new Urgent Notification by @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social
💥 28% of imprisoned are non-British nationals.
📊 AVID’s FOI: 10 people on average are held under immigration powers.
We don’t need new prisons. We need a new approach.
That’s how HMP Pentonville is described in a new Urgent Notification by @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social
💥 28% of imprisoned are non-British nationals.
📊 AVID’s FOI: 10 people on average are held under immigration powers.
We don’t need new prisons. We need a new approach.
IMB's 2024 Derwentside detention center for women report is out.
⚖️ 3/5 women released on bail (detention was unnecessary)
👨👩👧👦 Mothers separated from children
🏥 'Adults at risk' with mental health crises kept detained
You can take action to support and stand in solidarity with women in this center👇
⚖️ 3/5 women released on bail (detention was unnecessary)
👨👩👧👦 Mothers separated from children
🏥 'Adults at risk' with mental health crises kept detained
You can take action to support and stand in solidarity with women in this center👇
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
IMB's 2024 Derwentside detention center for women report is out.
⚖️ 3/5 women released on bail (detention was unnecessary)
👨👩👧👦 Mothers separated from children
🏥 'Adults at risk' with mental health crises kept detained
You can take action to support and stand in solidarity with women in this center👇
⚖️ 3/5 women released on bail (detention was unnecessary)
👨👩👧👦 Mothers separated from children
🏥 'Adults at risk' with mental health crises kept detained
You can take action to support and stand in solidarity with women in this center👇
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❤️🖤❤️ Tonight! ❤️🖤❤️
Join us at 6:30pm!
We look forward to seeing you at the online launch of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention 2025
Come and find out how you can get involved!
Booking information ⬇️
righttoremain.org.uk/17-july-onli...
Join us at 6:30pm!
We look forward to seeing you at the online launch of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention 2025
Come and find out how you can get involved!
Booking information ⬇️
righttoremain.org.uk/17-july-onli...
July 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
❤️🖤❤️ Tonight! ❤️🖤❤️
Join us at 6:30pm!
We look forward to seeing you at the online launch of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention 2025
Come and find out how you can get involved!
Booking information ⬇️
righttoremain.org.uk/17-july-onli...
Join us at 6:30pm!
We look forward to seeing you at the online launch of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention 2025
Come and find out how you can get involved!
Booking information ⬇️
righttoremain.org.uk/17-july-onli...
Sad statistics from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report: 35% increase in deaths in prison and other custody last year.
At least one death at Brook House IRC which has pending Inquest hearing later this month.
The Labour government must act quickly and now.
At least one death at Brook House IRC which has pending Inquest hearing later this month.
The Labour government must act quickly and now.
July 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sad statistics from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report: 35% increase in deaths in prison and other custody last year.
At least one death at Brook House IRC which has pending Inquest hearing later this month.
The Labour government must act quickly and now.
At least one death at Brook House IRC which has pending Inquest hearing later this month.
The Labour government must act quickly and now.
Accountability? Just for show.
The High Court has just ruled that the Home Office’s system for investigating complaints of mistreatment of people in detention is procedurally unfair.
It echoes the findings of the Brook House Inquiry.
📘Read more:
www.duncanlewis.co.uk/Reported_Cas...
The High Court has just ruled that the Home Office’s system for investigating complaints of mistreatment of people in detention is procedurally unfair.
It echoes the findings of the Brook House Inquiry.
📘Read more:
www.duncanlewis.co.uk/Reported_Cas...
High Court Finds Home Office Complaints Process for Immigration Detain
High Court Finds Home Office Complaints Process for Immigration Detainees Is Unfair
www.duncanlewis.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Accountability? Just for show.
The High Court has just ruled that the Home Office’s system for investigating complaints of mistreatment of people in detention is procedurally unfair.
It echoes the findings of the Brook House Inquiry.
📘Read more:
www.duncanlewis.co.uk/Reported_Cas...
The High Court has just ruled that the Home Office’s system for investigating complaints of mistreatment of people in detention is procedurally unfair.
It echoes the findings of the Brook House Inquiry.
📘Read more:
www.duncanlewis.co.uk/Reported_Cas...
The Supreme Court just ruled the Home Office acted unlawfully—again.
A win for Medical Justice and for every person NGOs resisting unchecked detention powers.
NGOs like AVID and visitor groups must be able to scrutinise policy that affects liberty.
www.wilsonllp.co.uk/news/supreme...
A win for Medical Justice and for every person NGOs resisting unchecked detention powers.
NGOs like AVID and visitor groups must be able to scrutinise policy that affects liberty.
www.wilsonllp.co.uk/news/supreme...
July 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The Supreme Court just ruled the Home Office acted unlawfully—again.
A win for Medical Justice and for every person NGOs resisting unchecked detention powers.
NGOs like AVID and visitor groups must be able to scrutinise policy that affects liberty.
www.wilsonllp.co.uk/news/supreme...
A win for Medical Justice and for every person NGOs resisting unchecked detention powers.
NGOs like AVID and visitor groups must be able to scrutinise policy that affects liberty.
www.wilsonllp.co.uk/news/supreme...
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Ali Smith writes in @theobserver.bsky.social ‘Ten years on, in even darker times for the people rendered voiceless and used as political expedience every day, Refugee Tales is more necessary than ever.’ shorturl.at/Fl5Z7 @rsliterature.bsky.social @commapress.bsky.social @aviddetention.bsky.social
Ali Smith: ‘Refugee Tales is a small bright spot in dark ...
In 2015 the novelist Ali Smith was invited to tell the story of a former detainee. Ten years on, she explains why the project is more necessary than ever
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July 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Ali Smith writes in @theobserver.bsky.social ‘Ten years on, in even darker times for the people rendered voiceless and used as political expedience every day, Refugee Tales is more necessary than ever.’ shorturl.at/Fl5Z7 @rsliterature.bsky.social @commapress.bsky.social @aviddetention.bsky.social