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Daily news from NCADC Today’s top stories: Reprieve for asylum seeking child - detained in adult detention centre and nearly deported to Iraq Onboard protest stops deportation flight - video Inspection of Colnbrook removal centre: oppressive; excessive use of force continues UN Refugee agency chief visits Iraq

PRESS RELEASE from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees. 2 June 2010 Iraqi refugees given tickets for deportation flight to Baghdad for Wednesday 9th June. More than 100 Iraqis have been detained in London detention centres, some of whom have been given removal directions to Iraq by the UK Border Agency for Wednesday 9th June at [...]

Twenty women at Yarl’s Wood ­detention centre in Bedford have been on hunger strike for two and a half weeks in protest at their treatment by the immigration ­authorities. Here, one of them, Denise McNeil, tells her story: I have been on hunger strike for more than a fortnight. I feel weak and get terrible [...]

Figures on self-harm in UK immigration detention between July and September 2009 inclusive, under the following headings: 1) Number of incidents of self-harm requiring medical treatment (total: 56) 2) Number of individuals on formal self-harm at risk. (total: 444) For tables including breakdown by detention centre, click here to

A magistrates judge has ruled that police acted unlawfully when arresting six anti-deportation campaigners who were blockading Colnbrook detention centre, near Heathrow airport, on 12th May, 2009, to try and prevent Iraqi refugees from being forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan on a specially chartered flight. Sitting at the Uxbridge Magistrates Court, judge Jane Wright concluded [...]