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Around the Campaigns Friday 18th April 2008

John O | 18.04.2008 09:27 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Self Harm in Immigration Detention - January to December 2007
- In this period every 2.3 days a detainee self-harmed requiring medical treatment. Last year 157 detainees were hospitalized after self-harming, 1,517 were put on 'Formal Self-Harm at Risk'
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/self-harm2006.html

Betty A
Betty A


Families in immigration Detention January/December 2007
The information in the tables is provided under the 'Freedom of Information Act 2000' and it should be noted that families may be moved from one centre to another during a month so some families will appear at more than one centre.
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/DetainedFamilieswUK.html

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Helen Laolu-Balogun: Nigerian Asylum Family Is Moved To Bristol
A Nigerian family removed from Plymouth and under threat of being returned to Africa has been moved again - this time to Bristol. The family of seven, which includes a 14-year-old boy with sickle cell anaemia, is living in 'a normal family home' in an undisclosed part of the city.
Full story: William Telford Investigations Editor, Plymouth Herald, 12 April 2008
 http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=133464&command=displayContent&sourceNode=133158&contentPK=20379034&folderPk=78031&pNodeId=133174

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News + Appeal from Crossroads Women's Centre

Some unbelievably good news - Betty and her children reunited

Some of you may know Betty A, a regular volunteer at the Centre where Women Against Rape (WAR) is based, who has been fighting for asylum for eight years. Betty is a rape survivor and mother of five. In July 2006, two months after Betty was illegally deported to Uganda with her five children, she was kidnapped and tortured by security agents.
She escaped from the boot of the car taking her to be killed, and eventually managed to make it back to Britain. Tragically she had no choice but to leave her children behind.

Your help is needed
Peace M also won the right to asylum in November last year after four long years of fighting even to get her case heard. Her three children are lost in Burundi and she needs money to find them. She was forced to leave them when she fled for her life after being imprisoned, raped and tortured in 2003. Any spare penny that she has had since she has been in the UK has gone to looking for them. We appealed for money last year and raised a few hundred pounds to help. But now that Peace has won the right to stay in the UK we want to renew our efforts.
 http://www.womenagainstrape.net/Initiatives/AsylumFromRape/Good%20news%20Betty.htm

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Refused asylum seekers sleeping rough in Bolton
One hundred refused asylum seekers - including men and women in their late 80s - are living rough in derelict houses and on people's floors in the Bolton area. Ray Collett, chairman of BRASS (Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers) revealed the scale of the problem at the charity's annual general meeting. He said: "These people fled their countries with nothing, and they still have nothing - including a future."
Full Story: Angela Kelly, Bolton News
 http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.2195380.0.refused_aslyum_seekers_sleeping_rough_in_bolton.php

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UK immigration: Marriage rules when enforcement action is being taken

Rumbidzayi Bvunzawabaya - Opinion, Zimbabwe Guardian, 12/04/08
 http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/news/130/ARTICLE/2114/2008-04-12.html

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Migrant crime wave a myth - police study
A wide-ranging police study has concluded that the surge in immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain has not fuelled a rise in crime, the Guardian has learned. Acpo report concludes offending no worse than rest of the population
Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent, The Guardian, Wednesday April 16 2008
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/16/immigrationpolicy.immigration

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End of Bulletin:

Source for this Message:
NCADC
Crossroads Women's Centre
Plymouth Herald
The Guardian
Zimbabwean Guardian
Bolton News

John O
- e-mail: JohnO@ncadc.org.uk
- Homepage: http://www.ncadc.org.uk

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