Posts Tagged ‘Tinsley House’

No Borders network newsletter no.6 – Spring 2009

The latest No Borders network newsletter is now available. Contents: *CALAIS NO BORDER CAMP 23-29 JUNE 2009 *ABOLISH ALL IMMIGRATION PRISONS! : REPORTS *BRISTOL GATHERING: LOCAL GROUPS UPDATES *GAZA : CALL OUT 27TH APRIL *VIVA EL MIGRANT RESISTENCIA ! *WOOLAS DETAINED *NO BORDERS TOUR


Tinsley House blockade against Iraq removal via charter flight, and hunger strike on inside

Early in the morning of March 17th, anti-deportation activists bravely put up a blockade of Tinsley House, an immigration detention near Gatwick airport, in order to try and prevent removal of Iraqi asylum seekers collected from here and also at detention centres at Dover and Campsfield (Cambs). Find full reports and pictures on Indymedia. And [...]


Asylum seekers and fellow passengers resist airline deportations. Resistance is not futile!

How can 60 men vanish? Yesterday morning at Tinsley House immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick airport, 15-20 men (Kurdish Iraqis) were being hurried to get ready to board a coach. Several were still waiting for responses from their solicitors, but their phones were quickly removed. At Colnbrook, another IRC at Heathrow airport, detainees had [...]