“I ask you this: who benefits from indefinite detention? Nobody does.”
Freed Voices: Michael →
Supporting people in detention. Campaigning for change.
24,748 people were indefinitely detained last year
Source: gov.uk
What we do
We support people in immigration detention
We support people held at Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Morton Hall detention centres and people held under immigration powers in London prisons.
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We campaign for detention reform
We're calling for an end to indefinite detention, a strict 28-day time limit and the expansion of community-based alternatives.
How you can help
Join the #Time4aTimeLimit campaign
The UK is the only country in Europe that has no time limit on immigration detention. This has to end. It's #Time4aTimeLimit.
Join the campaign →Volunteer with us
We rely on a network of volunteers to deliver support and advice to people in immigration detention. This includes our visitors, interpreters and advocacy and support volunteers.
Volunteer with us →In the news
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August 2019: another unlawful detention payout, this time for a Vietnamese trafficking survivor who was detained mi… https://t.co/ofAmflCmmA
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July 2019: @AfterExpProject publishes figures that indicate over 500 trafficking survivors were detained in 2019.… https://t.co/mgd5RQoJkK
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June 2019: "NN...was not identified as a potential victim of trafficking. Instead he was charged & convicted for ca… https://t.co/lKXgZtSVQB
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December 2018: Home Office ordered to pay £30,000 in damages to a survivor of child trafficking who was detained fo… https://t.co/PxZqY75bud
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October 2018: Judge rules that the Home Office unlawfully detained a survivor of torture and trafficking, and that… https://t.co/ckA9hjEN4u
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Freed Voices
“It is important that we keep our heads high, we stand up and we speak out.”
Freed Voices: Mishka →
“The sense of injustice swells inside of me when I think about it.”
Freed Voices: Kasonga →