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No Borders press release, 21 June Update: blockade ended peacefully at 9pm with no arrests Anti-deportation campaigners are blockading Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London this evening. 30 angry protesters from No Borders, [...]

The deportation charter flight to Sri Lanka took off yesterday evening, 16 June, while deliberations were still underway at the High Court. It is understood that one deportee won their injunction, but not until after the flight was in the air. Another flight is scheduled, and British charity Freedom from Torture (formerly the Medical Foundation) [...]

A London law firm has submitted an application to the High Court seeking an injunction to stop the removal of at least 14 Sri Lankans. The refugees have been refused asylum, and are facing removal on a controversial deportation charter flight tomorrow, Thursday, along with about 50 others. The injunction is on the basis that [...]

The immigration Barrister who blogs as Free Movement has revealed a serious breach of confidentiality of Sri Lankan refugees scheduled for deportation. Ahead of a planned mass expulsion of Sri Lankans from Britain, the UK Border Agency is allowing Sri Lankan officials to interrogate detainees in the UK about their asylum claims, and is passing [...]

For European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, NCADC is launching an online campaign targeting two key players that make forced removals possible - corporations which make a tidy profit from the damages done to thousands of lives. NCADC is urging people to contact these two companies this week to let them know exactly [...]

The Stop Deportation Network presents: An Info Day & Fundraiser on the Deportation Machine on Saturday 15 May in Brighton. The Stop Deportation Network will speak in Brighton about deportations and the resistance that is growing to oppose them. There is an expanding role of private companies in deportation flights and in joint European charter flights [...]

Last week the deportation charter flight to Nigeria was cancelled. Today, Bita Ghaedi was saved from removal to Iran, and tomorrow’s charter flight to Cameroon is off. A brief respite, but people are still in detention. The UK Border Agency will try again, and the airlines will carry out their dirty work, making money flying [...]

Stop Deportation, along with other groups in Europe, are proposing a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, with a focus on joint European mass deportation flights and Frontex. The proposed date is the first week of June 2010, 1st-6th. Put simply, the idea is that groups and campaigns throughout Europe organise their own [...]

This message from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees Approximately fifty men originally from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area of northern Iraq. They are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. he tickets, the first of which [...]

Campaign against mass deportations to Iraq Public forum Saturday 7 November, London 12 noon - 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) The Stop Deportation network is organising a public forum to build resistance to mass deportations. Find out about the hidden reality of mass deportation flights Legal and political challenges Networking and building [...]