Continuing
Conflicts That Create Refugees - June 2020
Deteriorated Situations: Kenya, South
Sudan, Sudan, Malawi, Venezuela, Yemen, Libya
Improved Situations: None
Conflict Risk Alerts for June, Burundi, Yemen,
Libya
Global Overview: The latest edition of Crisis
Group’s monthly conflict tracker highlights
deteriorations in May in seven countries and
conflict situations. In Sudan, intercommunal
violence erupted in the country’s west, east and
south while peace talks with rebel groups
suffered new delays. In South Sudan,
intercommunal violence between ethnic Murle and
ethnic Lou Nuer surged in the east killing
hundreds. Venezuelan authorities foiled an armed
incursion by sea and detained dozens of
opposition supporters, while opposition leader
Guaidó lost ground in his battle to control the
National Assembly.
Looking ahead to June, CrisisWatch warns of
three conflict risks. In Burundi, a potentially
violent post-electoral crisis looms after the
opposition challenged the provisional results of
the 20 May presidential election in the
Constitutional Court. In Libya, after the
capital Tripoli suffered increased shelling and
civilian casualties in May, external military
support on both sides could fuel further
escalation. Fighting in Yemen’s north and a
power struggle in the south could intensify
unless progress is made toward a nationwide
ceasefire.
Read more: Crisis Watch, https://is.gd/SQ2FfX
Charter Flights (Escorts and Removals)
Q1 January/February/March 2020
1. Number of males removed 51
2. Number of females removed 0
3. Number of escorts 262
4. Number of flights in total 5
5. Number flights to each country / number removed to each country
France – 4 Germany – 7 Austria – 2 Switzerland - 2 Jamaica – 17 Pakistan – 12 Ghana – 3 Nigeria - 4
*Please note that some flights went to more than one destination*
6. No Children were removed
Total cost of Home Office charter flights for the period
January/February/March 2020 £1,406,033.23
Immigration Stats, Q1 January/February/March
2020
Pre-Departure Accommodation (PDA) Tinsley House
IRC
Holds people being returned under the family
returns process when other attempts to remove
them have failed, usually for no more than five
days.
There was one incident of a Hunger Strike in
February 2020 and five incidents (two in
January, two in February and one in March) of
detainees on suicide watch.
.
Harmondsworth Q1 2020, averaged two suicide
attempts a day through January/February/March, a
total of 98 Incidents.
In the previous six months, there were 56
attempts in Q4 and 42 in Q3.
There was a sharp upturn in the number of Hunger
Strikes in Q1 2020 there were 94 incidents of
detainees refusing food. This compares with 63
incidents of detainees refusing food in the
previous six months, Q’s 3 & 4.
Hunger
Strikes in Immigration detention Q1 2020
|
|
|
January |
February |
March |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Brook
House |
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Colnbrook |
|
12 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Dungavel |
|
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Harmondsworth |
59 |
32 |
19 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morton
Hall |
|
17 |
9 |
3 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tinsley
House |
|
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Yarl's
Wood |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Larne |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Manchester |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sub Total |
94 |
49 |
27 |
18 |
|
‘Cruel
and Unnecessary’: Immigration Detention
During the Pandemic
One in seven immigration detainees were detained
for over a year with the longest period of
detention over 20 months – or the equivalent to
three years and four months’ prison sentence.
The latest statistics from Bail for Immigration
Detainees (BID) reveal that 95% of the group’s
cases had been successfully granted bail since
the lockdown began. According to BID, the
findings show that the Home Office has
demonstrated a number of failings in its
approach to bail hearings during the pandemic.
The group examined the reasons given by the Home
Office to detain people and to oppose bail
during the lockdown and whether the Home
Office’s claim to be primarily detaining
‘high-harm individuals’ was borne out by the
facts. It found a ‘high risk of harm’ was only
claimed in nine of 42 cases; and in 27 cases the
Home Office relied only on an applicant’s
previous offending to support its allegation
that the individual presented a risk of harm.
More than half of the applicants (23) were
accepted by the Home Office to be ‘adults at
risk’ in detention. Whilst detention is to be
used for the purpose of removal, the Home Office
referred to the current travel restrictions in
just seven cases.
At the end of April, the Home Office wrote to
the President of the First-tier Tribunal,
expressing ‘surprise’ at the level of grants of
bail in recent weeks in what was seen, according
to BID, as ‘an attempt to influence the
independent judiciary’. The president of the
tribunal reminded the Home Office that the
courts decide bail applications in accordance
with the law, and criticised the Home Office’s
approach to bail applications. ‘This research
lays bare a catalogue of failings in the Home
Office’s approach to detention decision-making.
Immigration detention is already an inhumane
system where people can be locked up
indefinitely without trial,’ commented BID
Director, Celia Clarke. ‘Its use during COVID-19
places detainees, staff, and indeed the country,
at risk. It is both cruel and unnecessary and
must be ended as a matter of urgency.’
Jon Robins, Justice Gap, https://is.gd/SdXk9Z
Incidents
of Self-Harm Requiring Medical Treatment
Q1 2020
|
|
1st
Quarter |
January |
February |
March |
| Brook
House |
|
8 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Colnbrook |
|
23 |
5 |
6 |
12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Dungavel |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Harmondsworth |
98 |
30 |
40 |
28 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morton
Hall |
|
11 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tinsley
House |
|
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Yarl's
Wood |
|
6 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Larne |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Manchester |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtotal
151 |
49 |
56 |
46 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incidents of Detainees at risk of
Self-Harm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st
Quarter |
January |
February |
March |
| Brook
House |
|
43 |
14 |
15 |
14 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Colnbrook |
|
118 |
42 |
42 |
34 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Dungavel |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Harmondsworth |
215 |
66 |
82 |
67 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Morton
Hall |
|
100 |
36 |
32 |
32 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tinsley
House |
|
37 |
11 |
15 |
11 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Yarl's
Wood |
|
37 |
13 |
15 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Larne |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Manchester |
|
11 |
1 |
8 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtotal
556 |
183 |
210 |
163 |
Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Riot Shields, Made
In the UK, Exported to the US Are Being Used
Against Civil Rights Protesters
EDM 549: US Civil Protests and UK
Supply Of Police Equipment
That this House condemns the violent rhetoric
used by US President Donald Trump in response to
protests over the killing of George Floyd and
racial injustice; urges the Government to
express this strength of feeling in the
strongest terms publicly and to their US
counterparts; and calls on the Government to
review exports to the US of equipment including
tear gas, rubber bullets and riot shields
immediately, amid reports that these are being
used against civil rights protesters.
Parliament: Tabled 03 June 2020, https://is.gd/up8rFO
Put Your MP to Work – Ask Them to Sign EDM 549
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