Demo v Immigration Bill & Briefing Update
Demo against the Bill, Tues 5 April outside Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon CR9 2BY, from 10.30am. Opposition to the Immigration Bill continues to grow... Read more.
Court of Appeal suspends the Detained Fast track!
Today the Court of Appeal ruled that the government must immediately suspend the discredited Detained Fast Track. Hunger strikes and other protests in detention... Read more.
Speak Out: Rape & Sexual Assault in Yarl’s Wood
BWRAP and WAR spoke to one of at least thirty women who have gone on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood to protest the removal of seven women back to Pakistan on a ... Read more.
Speak Out: Rape & Sexual Assault In Yarl’s Wood Immigration & Removal Centre
On Tuesday, the 1st October, at 3pm, victims of rape and sexual assault including testimonies from women who experienced and/or witnessed sexual abuse whilst he... Read more.
SERCO officers in Yarl’s Wood IRC, violent, racist, sexist & vindictive
On 6 December at 2pm Ms Jane Uyi was physically assaulted and verbally abused by several SERCO guards during one of their routine monthly searches of women’s ... Read more.
Women’s Hunger Strike – Louder Than Words
When 70 women went on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood IRC on 5 February, an unprecedented level of media coverage followed. Rape survivors, mothers separated fro... Read more.
Yarl’s Wood Update: Releases, Returns, Reprisals
Thirteen former hunger strikers have now been released of the 25 or so we were in touch with on a daily basis.... Read more.
Stop Rape, Detention And Deportations
On 8 June, a charge of attempted rape brought by Ms Joy N against chief of police inspector Vittorio Addesso of Milan CIE (Centre for Identification and Expulsi... Read more.
Hunger striker released from Holloway
Following a third bail hearing on 26 April, Ms K won her long overdue release from Holloway prison.... Read more.
Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike
On Friday 19 March, most of the women who have been refusing food, suspended their hunger strike in order to avoid permanent damage to their health. Women hav... Read more.