Skip to content
Currently viewing all posts with the category: News Clear category selection

APPG Inquiry into quasi-detention

July 9th, 2021

Watch the first oral evidence session Last week on 1st July 2021 the All Party-Parliamentary Group…

MPs have #30DaysToAct for detained trafficking victims

March 24th, 2021

Stealth legislation grants new powers to detain victims “on even wider scale” Under new policy, passed…

Medical Justice gives oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on handling of Covid-19 in IRCs

March 15th, 2021

On Tuesday the 3rd of February Theresa Schleicher of Medical Justice gave oral evidence to the…

Brook House Inquiry: preliminary hearing

September 23rd, 2020

Preliminary Hearing announced for the Independent Inquiry into Brook House The Brook House Inquiry will hold…

Yarl’s Wood expands short-term holding facility

August 20th, 2020

Medical Justice has discovered that there have been no women held in Yarl’s Wood for over…

Medical Justice Annual Report: Financial Year 2019-20

July 31st, 2020

Covering 1st February 2019 to 31st January 2020.... Medical Justice handled referrals from 833 immigration detainees,…

HASC: “It is troubling that nearly 40% of those remaining in immigration detention are at high risk from Covid-19”

July 29th, 2020

Medical Justice submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee’s report - Home Office preparedness for…

Amendment to the Immigration Bill limiting Segregation / Morton Hall to close as an IRC

July 27th, 2020

Amendment to the Immigration Bill limiting Segregation Last week, Lord Ramsbotham (pictured below) said during the…

Evidence submitted for inquiry in to the government’s response to COVID-19

July 23rd, 2020

On the 22nd of July 2020, Medical Justice submitted written evidence to the Joint Human Rights…