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Tag: detention centre

What we should know but aren’t told: A brief reminder of the UK’s continuing ‘hostile environment’

Posted on 19th November 202019th November 2020 by Geeta Wedderburn

The Hostile Environment policy still stands to enforce systematic socio-economic immobilisation for refugees to this day. Geeta Wedderburn sets out some of the hurdles faced when seeking asylum.

Leeds Student Action For Refugees Protests Outside Morton Hall

Posted on 15th March 202022nd May 2020 by Amy Ramswell

Last Saturday, Leeds Student Action for Refugees campaigners convened at Morton Hall Detention Centre to protest against the facility.  Behind the grey, barbed wire topped fences are up to 392 detained people. Some of these […]

Yarls Wood: “My Life is in Limbo”

Posted on 9th March 2018 by The Gryphon Web Editor

On the 21st February 2018 over 100 women participated in a hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre over “inhumane” conditions and indefinite detention. Yarl’s Wood is a detention centre for asylum seekers and immigrants […]

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