detention - openDemocracy

Thousands of couples face ‘humiliating’ Home Office sham marriage checks

The government is also facing legal action over its automated system that decides which couples are investigated

By Jack Barton

/ 12 Jul 2023

Thousands of couples face ‘humiliating’ Home Office sham marriage checks

‘It was hell’: asylum seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detention

Exclusive: Three reports provide new evidence of migrants and asylum seekers being systematically detained and abused

By Melissa Pawson

/ 23 Feb 2023

‘It was hell’: asylum seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detention

‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre

A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her

By Lauren Crosby Medlicott

/ 14 Dec 2022

‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre

At the UK’s detention centres, border violence and outsourcing collide

OPINION: We need unity between the detained, the outsourced and the underpaid – unions must take on the fight

By Marcel Salay and Abel Brandão

/ 12 Dec 2022

At the UK’s detention centres, border violence and outsourcing collide

COVID-19 reveals the inherent vindictiveness of migration detention

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system.

By Katie Welsford and Michael Flynn

/ 25 May 2020

COVID-19 reveals the inherent vindictiveness of migration detention

The UK is 'getting worse' on torture and ill-treatment both at home and abroad

As the UK faces UN scrutiny in Geneva this week, a new report examining everything from British prisons and immigration centres, to the legacy of Northern Ireland and Iraq, makes for sobering reading.

By Rupert Skilbeck

/ 7 May 2019

The UK is 'getting worse' on torture and ill-treatment both at home and abroad

The UN’s Committee Against Torture is about to examine the UK’s treatment of prisoners – and it’s not looking good

If we care about human rights at all, we should care about the drastic deterioration in prison conditions under ‘austerity’.

By Julia Kreienkamp and Tom Pegram

/ 10 Apr 2019

The UN’s Committee Against Torture is about to examine the UK’s treatment of prisoners – and it’s not looking good

The photojournalist who ‘damaged Egyptian national unity’

Shawkan, an Egyptian photojournalist, has had his detention extended yet again. His camera has been as cold as the regime currently ruling Egypt - locking up anyone and everyone on no grounds at all.

By Aya Nader

/ 14 Dec 2015

Administrative detention and Israel's moral imperative

A review of Israel’s detention policy reveals it to be outrageous, convoluted, and self-defeating.

By Alon Ben Meir

/ 29 Sep 2015