Draft:Detention Action

Detention Action is a British human rights charity, founded in 1993 to defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in immigration detention.

Detention Action lobbies, has been campaigning for a long time, director is Bella Sankey[1] James Wilson[2]

Podcast (How do we reference that?) New Economics Podcast: The UK's response to the refugee crisis | New Economics Foundation [3]

Brighton’s Bella Sankey calls for the end of “Inhumane Indefinite Detention” - by Michael Shirley, Steyning Grammar School | The Argus [4] - Not edited/Moderated. May be ok for direct quotes?

Self-published submission- may be useful as a pointer to other sources [5]

Notability of their litigation ("it was not until the Detention Action litigation that the policy of detention in the DFT or the fairness of the process as a whole was again challenged.")[6]

Press release, mostly self-published, but with editorial comment from 3rd party [7]

Legal challenge against the Rwanda asylum plan (Possible back-link from there once this is up?) [8]

Official Charities commission website [9]

Good 3rd-party summary of the legal action taken, what they argued, and what the decision was. Gold!. UK - Detention Action (applicant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (defendant) and Equality Human Rights Commission (intervener) [2014] EWHC 2245 | European Database of Asylum Law [10]

A couple of Guardian references to their campaign during the Covid 19 pandemic [11][12]

Book mentions:

"... Detention Action successfully challenged the DFT system on the basis that it possessed ' an unacceptably high risk of unfairness ' due to inadequate screening by HO officials who illegally detained survivors of torture , victims of ..."[13]

"Detention Action challenged the safety and lawfulness of continued immigration detention during the pandemic (R (Detention Action & Anor) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 732 (Admin))."[14]

"Detention Action case, in which the Court of Appeal ruled that the detained fast-track process was systemically unfair and unjust" [15]

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Manston Detention Centre [16]

Rwanda Flights [17]

Detained Fast Track [18] Liberty Human Rights Campaign of the Year Award Nomination[19] and Victory [20]

Indefinite detention [21]

  1. ^ Lindsay, Frey. "The U.K. House Of Lords Has Called Time On Unlimited Immigration Detention". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  2. ^ O'Reilly, Luke (2023-11-15). "Government must consider legal costs of future asylum plans, says refugee lawyer". The Standard. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  3. ^ Thomas-Smith, Ayeisha. "New Economics Podcast: The UK's response to the refugee crisis". New Economics Foundation. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  4. ^ "Brighton's Bella Sankey calls for the end of "Inhumane Indefinite Detention" - by Michael Shirley, Steyning Grammar School". The Argus. 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  5. ^ https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/lib-docs/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session13/GB/DA_UPR_GBR_S13_2012_DetentionAction_E.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Speed kills". www.lag.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  7. ^ "End indefinite immigration detention". Bindmans. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  8. ^ "Government to face multiple legal challenges over lawfulness of new policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda". www.ein.org.uk. 2022-05-03. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  9. ^ "DETENTION ACTION - Charity 1198554". prd-ds-register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  10. ^ "UK - Detention Action (applicant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (defendant) and Equality Human Rights Commission (intervener) [2014] EWHC 2245 | European Database of Asylum Law". www.asylumlawdatabase.eu. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  11. ^ Taylor, Diane (2020-03-21). "Home Office releases 300 from detention centres amid Covid-19 pandemic". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  12. ^ Taylor, Diane (2020-03-14). "Coronavirus: call to release UK immigration centre detainees". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  13. ^ Campbell, John R. (December 2016). Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom's Asylum System. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-315-44479-6.
  14. ^ Clayton, Gina; Firth, Georgina (2021). Immigration and Asylum Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-884893-6.
  15. ^ Thomas, Robert (2022-02-10). Administrative Law in Action: Immigration Administration. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-5099-5311-0.
  16. ^ Taylor, Diane (2022-11-22). "Manston asylum centre now empty after weeks of controversy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  17. ^ "Rwanda migrant plan is lawful, High Court rules". BBC News. 2022-12-19. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  18. ^ "Speed kills". www.lag.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  19. ^ UK, Integrate (2015-08-25). "Integrate Bristol in running for Liberty Human Rights Award". Integrate UK. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  20. ^ "Human Rights Awards 2015: Liberty recognises fearless activists at the forefront of the battle for our rights | Liberty". 2018-12-16. Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2024-11-08.
  21. ^ Bowcott, Owen; correspondent, Owen Bowcott Legal affairs (2019-02-07). "MPs and peers call for end to indefinite detention". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-08. {{cite news}}: |last2= has generic name (help)