Please watch this amazing film by Sue Clayton about the issues surrounding the charging, trial and conviction of the Stansted 15. It poses some very important questions about our democratic right to peaceful protest.
Links to Relevant Sites
- ASYLUM SUPPORT APPEALS PROJECT Protects asylum seekers’ legal rights to food and shelter
- BAIL FOR IMMIGRATION DETAINEES (BID) exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. BID also has a useful leaflet, “How to Get Out of Detention”.
- CALAIS MIGRANT SOLIDARITY gives current advice about what is needed and how to help.
- DETENTION ACTION supports people in detention and campaigns for change
- DOCTORS OF THE WORLD is attending to migrants’ medical needs and would welcome cash donations.
- GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP supports people held in detention near Gatwick Airport
- THE JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS has been Campaigning for justice in immigration, nationality & asylum law & policy since 1967
- MIGRANTS RIGHTS NETWORK works for the rights of all immigrants
- NO-DEPORTATIONS gives current details of the legal and human situation of detainees
- SEEKING SANCTUARY is a small organisation promoting awareness of migrants near our shores and all lone children, also providing humanitarian assistance to exiles, especially those stranded in Northwest France.
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released.
In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives.
You can order the book here.
All profits go to the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group and Kent Refugee Help
Contact
PO Box 192
Whitstable, Kent
CT5 1WA
Kent Refugee Help
Charity Number 1120185