Latest news: BUT PLEASE NOTE THE AUG 28 DEMONSTRATIONS WILL GO AHEAD AS PLANNED. Judge halts DR Congo deportations until a hearing in September decided whether the country was fit for returning asylum seekers. See NCADC and BBC News. The legal action was bought by 10 failed asylum seekers after Home Secretary Jacqui Smith refused [...]

Operation ‘Castor’ – 2nd Charter Flight to DR Congo – Thursday 30th August 2007 News flash 17th August: XL offices occupied during ‘camp for climate action’ week against Congo deportations. See also: Trip from Climate Camp to detention centres nearby Information from NCADC: It has been confirmed that some refused asylum seekers from DR Congo, [...]

While reporting at Loughborough Reporting Centre on 8 August 2007 Jane Mary Mutetsi, asylum seeker from Uganda, was detained. She was moved to Manchester Airport holding centre since there were ‘no beds elsewhere’. She is due to be deported on Monday 13 August 2007, from Heathrow Airport London. It looks like the flight will be [...]

7th August: A demonstration took place this lunchtime outside Lindholme Detention Centre, near Doncaster. From 11.30am to 1.45pm protestors showed solidarity with the people detained inside for no other crime than entering the UK seeking asylum from oppressive regimes at home. Read full report on this website, and another report with photos on Indymedia UK. [...]

August 2nd – Press Release by Close Campsfield Campaign FOLLOWING TUESDAY NIGHT’S LARGE, DISCIPLINED YARD-PROTEST and Wednesday morning’s hunger strike, two Home Office representatives were called to Campsfield on Wednesday afternoon to hear the detainees’ grievances. The pair, including the Assistant Director of Escorting Services at the Borders and Immigration Authority (Philip Schoelenberger?) were confronted [...]