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Daily news round-up from NCADC Today’s top stories: “It doesn’t make any sense”: Kafkaesque detention system Also senseless: Refusal but with no removal or appeal And to make matters worse, there’s no access to justice Meanwhile, at the borders of Fortress Europe…

Saturday 13 March in Glasgow Starting at Red Road flats, 11:00am 63 Petershill Drive, Glasgow G21 Marching to a rally in George Square The march, organised by Red Road Residents, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees and the Unity Centre, will begin at the exact spot of grass where a family of three asylum seekers, the [...]

Florence Mhango and 10 year old Precious talk of their experiences of imprisonment while awaiting a final decision on their asylum appeal. Mother and daughter have recently been through their second period behind bars in Britain’s immigration prison system. Florence is waiting to hear if her legal challenge to asylum refusal will be allowed - [...]

They need your support Cranhill Community Support group is meeting on Saturday to give out leaflets and to collect signatures on the petition and raise cash for the legal funds required for the campaign to bring Florence and Precious back to Cranhill where they both belong. Buchanan Street, Glasgow City Centre at Borders Bookshop. Saturday [...]

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