Anti-Deportation Campaigns  -  April 2016


Anti-Deportation News  - April 2016

Very, Very Expensive to Fall in Love With a Foreign National

Asylum Seekers Poorly Served by ‘Sausage Factory’ Law Firms

Migrant Crisis: Austria Passes Controversial New Asylum Law

Australian Offshore Detention of Asylum Seekers ‘Illegal’ Rules Court

US: 20 Years of Immigrant Abuses

Theresa May Faces Backlash Over Call to Leave ECtHR

Asylum and Immigration Court Fees Set to Rise by Over 500%

Council of Europe Condemns EU's Refugee Deal With Turkey

Unaccompanied Child Refugees to be Dispersed Across UK

Germany Unveils Integration Law For Refugees

£13.8 Million Paid out to 573 People Unlawfully Detained in IRCs

House of Commons Debates - Unaccompanied Children

Bid to Deport Six Terror Suspects Blocked After UK Judges Cite Torture Fears In Algeria

 Human rights in Europe: Do Not Leave the Battlefield

Government Loses Supreme Court Battle Over 'Residence Test' For Legal Aid

Theresa May to Put 72-Hour Limit on Detention of Pregnant Asylum Seekers

Australia: Asylum Seeker Fined for Attempted Suicide

Germany Unveils Integration Law For Refugees

Immigration Lawyer Who Takes the Cases No One Wants

Home Office Subjects Asylum Seeker to Nine-Day 407-Mile Detour Across UK

Refugees: 4,388 Deaths in Mediterranean and Aegean Seas

Immigration Officers Allowed to Hack Phones of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Fourfold Rise as 95,000 Unaccompanied Children Claim Asylum in Europe in 2015

EU: Asylum Proposals Go in Wrong Direction

Amnesty Highlights 'Disturbing Rise' in State Executions

Calais ‘Jungle': 75% of Refugees Have 'Experienced Police Violence'

Human Rights Work Has Been Downgraded by Foreign Office, say MPs

UK Urged to Give Asylum to 100 Women Who Fled Isis Captivity In Iraq

Calais 'Jungle': 129 Unaccompanied Children Missing Since Refugee Camp Demolition

EU Drafts Plans to Return 80,000 Afghan Asylum Seekers/Refugees


Legal - UK - Commons/Lords  - ECtHR/European Union - April 2016

French Travellers and Ors v. France – Violation of Article 8

Comprehensive Support Regime for Recognised Victims of Human Trafficking

Cyrus, R (on the application of) v SSHD [2016] EWHC 918 (Admin) (26 April 2016)

Turkey: Refusal to Provide a Public Service to Followers of the Alevi Faith, Entailed A Breach of Their Right to Freedom of Religion

Judgment in Case C-558/14  Mimoun Khachab vSubdelegación del Gobierno en Álava

R (on the application of Onowu) v First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (extension of time for appealing: principles) IJR [2016] UKUT 185 (IAC)

R (on the application of B) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Rule 33A JR amendments and transfers) IJR [2016] UKUT 182 (IAC)

BJ (Singh explained) Sri Lanka [2016] UKUT 184 (IAC) (18 March 2016)

Cudjoe (Proxy marriages: burden of proof) [2016] UKUT 180 (IAC)

Tukhas (para 245HD(f): "Appropriate Salary") [2016] UKUT 183 (IAC)

Persistent Offending:

EU Family Member Wins Damages for Unlawful Detention and Breach of EU Law

Asylum: Children Ministerial Corrections

Z, Re (Recognition of Foreign Order) (rev 1) [2016] EWHC 784 (Fam) (08 April 2016)

Workshop on Registration of Children as British Citizens

U.S. Woman Wins Appeal Against ‘Unlawful’ Decision to Refuse British Citizenship

Am I British? Revocation of Citizenship and Other Scenarios

High Court Rules Unremovable Iraqi Not Entitled to Leave to Remain

Reports Made Under Rule 35 (1) In Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) Q4 2015

Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) COI Update Volume 123

Asylum Research Consultancy (ARC) COI Update Volume 122

UKHO CIG Pakistan: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

UKHO CIG Mali: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

UKHO CIG Mali: Security and Humanitarian Situation in Northern Mali

UKHO CIG Mali: The Bellah (also known as the 'Black Tuareg')

UKHO CIG Yemen: Security and Humanitarian Situation

UKHO CIG Albania: Women Fearing Domestic Violence

UKHO CIG Bangladesh: Minority Religious Groups


Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees – Crisis Watch Issue 152 - March 2016

Deteriorated Situations: Belgium, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Sahara


Important Tools for Anti-Deportation Campaigners - 2016


1) Amnesty International Report 2014/15: State of the World's Human Rights

2) Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democracies, Freedom of the World 2016

 

Useful Reports/Current Immigration Statistics

Self-Harm January through December 2015

Self-Harm January through December 2014

Deportations/Detention/Asylum Q4 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q3 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q2 - 2015

Deportations - Detention - Asylum Q1 - 2015


25 Deaths Across the UK Detention Estate - Suicide/Murder/Undetermined

Last updated 30 April, 2016