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Open Letter and Statement on Immigration Detention and Covid-19

TWMF Yorkshire campaigners write on their extreme concern about the safety of those who remain in immigration detention under Covid-19 and why the government take action now.

Kick the walls down

This recording is by a campaigner who has experienced the state violence and racism of immigration detention three times. A woman who stands in solidarity with all who are striving, fighting, for freedom, equality, justice.

New legal challenge to “irrational and discriminatory” approach to detention in the pandemic

Government faces a fresh legal challenge to immigration detention during Covid-19, after settling the first immigration detention case.

Reflections On the Pandemic

Victor Mujakachi reflects on the coronavirus pandemic, the government’s response, racism, the impact of the crisis on migrants, fake news, and the history of Zimbabwe, which eventually brought him to the UK.

Urgent action: We must empty the detention centres – write to your MP for help

TAKE ACTION: email your MP, ask for help bring pressure on the Home Secretary to empty the detention centres. This is urgent. The Home Office must take action now to stop the spread of Covid-19

Lockdown sessions bring down walls – looking for volunteers

We’re looking for people to help run online events to raise urgent funds for local projects, and support the campaign to end immigration detention

Conversations Across Borders: Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian and These Walls Must Fall in Conversation

These Walls Must Fall campaigners in joined author Behrouz Boochani, and translator Omid Tofighian, discussing the writing of Boochani’s extraordinary book ‘No Friend But the Mountains’, a first-hand account of his detention by the Australian government on Manus Island