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Membership network for volunteer visitors to immigration detention. Helping those detained in removal centres, STHF & prisons across UK.
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AVIDdetention @aviddetention.bsky.social · Nov 12
Here is a very short list(Starter pack) of people/researchers/ organisations to follow on @bsky.app

But if you can think of someone to add, let us know or comment under this list.

Looking for anyone/organisation who posts about Immigration detention in the UK.
go.bsky.app/EkMTvkS
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beyonddetention.bsky.social
Connor's story: The weight of Detention

(2/4)

#storytelling #hope #compassion #hopenothate #christmascampaign #raiseawareness
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
💔Pre-inquest into death of a detained individual at a facility near Gatwick underscores the human cost of a system built on control and containment—not care.
We must stop asking who absorbs the responsibility and start demanding why any human being, is subjected to this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brook House: Hearing into immigration removal centre death
French national Théophile Kaliviotis died at the facility near Gatwick Airport on 27 October 2024.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
📣At the protest this weekend:
"The people of Oxfordshire have made their voices clear, and will continue to do so, that refugees are welcome here. This is meant to be a city of sanctuary. Campsfield is the opposite of sanctuary." @asylumwelcome.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Protesters oppose immigration removal centre reopening
Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre is due to reopen later this year, after closing in 2018
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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migrantsrights.bsky.social
Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️‍⚧️

In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
What’s unfolding in the UK - attempts to weaken ECHR protections, expand removals, & detention isn’t isolated. Part of the same EU machinery of exclusion the blog exposes: racialised, gendered, and designed to make people disappear.

📃Read here www.equinox-eu.com/building-rou...
Building Routes of Resistance against the EU Deportation Regime – Equinox
In September, we gathered migrant-led collectives and activists from more than 15 countries in Athens in response to the EU’s deportation regime. In a climate of rising far-right power in Europe, wher...
www.equinox-eu.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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beyonddetention.bsky.social Beyond Detention @beyonddetention.bsky.social · 8d
(1/3)The Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday denies people seeking safety the stability they need to make a life in the UK. Instead, it feeds the idea that people trying to make a life for themselves in the UK are outsiders rather than future colleagues, neighbours and friends.
#notinourname
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care.

Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.

If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed: Screening of Removed
Monday 17th November, 6-7:30 PMCentre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, St Cross RoadJoin us next
www.law.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
Govt pushing for “tough” asylum plans,but the real danger is the move to rewrite how UK courts apply the ECHR.This won’t stop at deportation cases

Undermine rights for migrants,&you weaken the tools every marginalised group relies on to hold the state to account
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
"Brook House is a 'money machine,' so they have a vested interest in you staying, not leaving.

A Ghanaian man describes his experience at the #immigration detention centre run by British private security multinational Serco.

Read this analysis from @euobserver.com

euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Drugs, violence and profit: Inside Britain’s Brook House detention centre
At the UK's Brook House, migrants describe being trapped in a system driven by profit rather than policy — a place where private companies earn more the longer people are kept in limbo, a new investig...
euobserver.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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bordercrim.bsky.social
📣 Event alert!

Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social

www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
poster detailing the information over a pink background: Join us next Monday, 17th November, to watch a short film about immigration detention, learn about the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed and find out how to get involved in opposing the reopening of a detention centre in Oxfordshire! Removed (2025) is a short film about gendered violence, resistance and solidarity in immigration detention made collaboratively by academics, activists and people with lived experience of detention. The screening will be followed by a conversation on immigration detention and the local Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed that will include academic and activist perspectives, with speakers from Border Criminologies, the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) and the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed. This event is jointly organized by STAR (Student Action for Refugees), Cuntry Living Zine at the University of Oxford and Border Criminologies.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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detentionforum.bsky.social
The judgement builds on case law surrounding powers of immigration detention + consequent immigration bail. These powers can only be applied where there is some prospect of removal.
Now the High Court has extended the application of these principles to the exercise of electronic monitoring powers.
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
📺An event for people in #Belfast to attend tonight!

Aminata Kolokoh - our Senior Outreach Coordinator will join this panel to showcase our joint animation about the reality of being detained.

festivalofsocialscience.com/events/remov...
Removed: how does it feel to be detained in immigration detention? | Events | Festival of Social Science
Join this session at the Queen's Film Theatre (QFT), where attendees can watch the short animated film Removed looking at immigration detention, followed by opportunity to hear…
festivalofsocialscience.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
🚨This Thursday, 16 October at 9.30am, Home Affairs Select Committee will question Border Security Commander on work of the Border Security Command, questions will also include ‘one in, one out’ deal with France.

📺Watch here: committees.parliament.uk/event/25149/...
16 October 2025 - Border security and irregular migration: The work of the Border Security Command - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
09:00 - The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
committees.parliament.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
“The agreement between the UK and France will go down as a dark chapter in history because it has abandoned us completely"

Visitor groups are already seeing immense harm under this scheme - it should be scrapped immediately.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Human rights groups call for France to suspend ‘one in, one out’ treaty with UK
UK and French organisations file legal challenge against July agreement to swap asylum seekers
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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rainbowmigration.bsky.social
In the run up to @righttoremain National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on the 18th of October, Rainbow Migration and Beyond Detention are collaborating for this event. Grab your tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/30410/...
In-person event in London: End immigration detention. See caption for details.
September 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
People of #Scotland - one of our network member @sdvisitors.bsky.social is the only organisation to provide vital support and solidarity to people detained at Dungavel detention center.

Please consider supporting their emergency appeal to raise funds:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/emergency-15
Emergency appeal
Help us to continue our vital work, supporting people detained by the immigration service in Dungavel
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
“It is unfortunate that the appellant went on to suffer two cardiovascular attacks having refrained from going for health checks,” the judge said, adding that George has been destitute while in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Disabled Nigerian man living in UK for 38 years wins appeal against deportation
Anthony Olubunmi George, who arrived in 1986 and has no criminal convictions, given right to remain
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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detentionaction.bsky.social
Hear Fessahaye's story: he fled torture and slavery, only to be detained in the UK and threatened with removal under the new asylum deal. Detention is harsh, harmful, and wholly unsuitable for those fleeing war, torture, and persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
💼Join this incredible team to challenge immigration detention and support those held in Colnbrook and Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Center.

#Jobalert - learn more below:
jrsuk.bsky.social Jesuit Refugee Service UK @jrsuk.bsky.social · Aug 30
We're #hiring!

JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply:
Join our team | JRS UK
Join our team to help make a difference to the lives of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
jrsuk.net
September 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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jrsuk.bsky.social
Join our team! 💙

JRS UK is recruiting a full-time Detention Outreach Caseworker to accompany and support people in immigration detention, offering practical help & advocacy. Learn more & apply: jrsuk.net/work-with-us
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
"Detention is being normalised. Removals are happening faster. Rights are harder to access. One in, one out – but everyone loses. It is a high-speed pipeline for expulsion"

Our concerns about the UK Government’s newly operational “one-in, one-out” policy
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/pres...
[Press Release] “One in, one out – but everyone loses”: AVID raises concern over the new governement policy
Government plays numbers game as suicidality, and human-rights warnings pile up in UK detention system.
www.aviddetention.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
Thank you to the Casework Solidarity Forum for providing a space to connect, learn from and support each other in an increasingly challenging environment. We were able to hear and speak about how to manage capacity, how we can mobilise as a sector against racism and how to care for each other.
July 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
🕯️ Remembering Alfred Dosku🕯️

Last week, we had sat through 5-days inquest into his death. The jury read out their verdict as 'Suicide'.

Just one week after arriving at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, Alfred was found with a ligature around his neck(09th November 2023). (1/2)
July 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
aviddetention.bsky.social
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rainbowmigration.bsky.social rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social · Jul 21
⚠️Immigration detention is not safe for anyone, but #LGBTQI+ people are at even higher risk of harm from homophobic abuse and bullying.

📢Join us in calling on this government to end LGBTQI+ detention today: bit.ly/3GX6T3w
July 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
aviddetention.bsky.social
🚨 Squalid. Unsafe. Inhumane.
That’s how HMP Pentonville is described in a new Urgent Notification by @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social

💥 28% of imprisoned are non-British nationals.
📊 AVID’s FOI: 10 people on average are held under immigration powers.

We don’t need new prisons. We need a new approach.
hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social · Jul 18
On Wednesday, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons wrote to Shabana Mahmood invoking an Urgent Notification for HMP Pentonville.

Read the letter and inspection debrief: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repo...

And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/many-pr...
Urgent notification invoked for HMP Pentonville, July 2025. Safety was poor, respect was not sufficiently good, purposeful activity was poor and preparation for release was poor.
July 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM