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December 31, 2018

MPs including Jeremy Corbyn make New Year’s resolutions

MPs from Labour, Conservatives, SNP and DUP look to end this one thing in 2019

The Indefinite Detention Scandal

“The hostile environment and indefinite detention are two of the biggest stains on our democracy”

December 17, 2018

“It is only an accident of fate that I was born in the UK”

Freed Voices member K.A. interviews Baroness Hamwee, a long-term advocate for detention reform in the House of Lords. Baroness Hamwee…

December 11, 2018

Separation and abandonment as a result of detention

This blog comes from A. Panquang, a member of Freed Voices and was originally posted on Unlocking Detention.  Detaining anybody simply means…

December 10, 2018

For many autumns to come

This blog was written by Mishka, a member of Freed Voices, and was originally posted on Unlocking Detention. Two days have passed…

December 8, 2018

“The stain of detention haunts us, but I don’t want it to define us”

On 28 November, Freed Voices gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ inquiry into immigration detention. I have never…

December 6, 2018

Immigration detention is mental torture

This blog comes from Souleymane, a member of Freed Voices and was originally posted on Unlocking Detention. My name is Souleymane and…

December 4, 2018

“There was a chance justice would be done.”

Mishka from Freed Voices interviews Tamsin Alger, Detention Action Deputy Director about her experience of the Detained Fast Track (DFT)…

November 30, 2018

“We are not outsiders, we are one of your own”: peer support groups in detention

On 21 November, the Freed Voices group invited Akiko Hart, Hearing Voices project manager at Mind in Camden, to their…

November 27, 2018

The paradox of visiting people in detention

“We both hoped there wouldn’t be another visit.” Detention Action volunteer Anthony talks about his time visiting people detained in Harmondsworth…