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September 7 2011, 11.28AM Manchester MULE
Deportation date set for playwright asylum seeker and husband
Two Cameroonian asylum seekers, the playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey, have been told by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) that they ...
August 19 2011, 7.08PM Manchester MULE
Journalist ends hunger strike as UKBA backs down
Journalist James Fallah-Williams has ended his 19-day hunger strike after the UK Border Agency (UKBA) agreed to resume communications with his lega...
August 15 2011, 2.01PM Manchester MULE
Vigil this evening for hunger strike journalist
Supporters of journalist and human rights activist James Fallah-Williams are to hold a solidarity vigil this evening to mark the fourteenth day of ...
August 9 2011, 10.18AM Manchester MULE
Local journalist on hunger strike
A local journalist is on hunger strike in protest against the UK Border Agency’s handling of his case for asylum. Manchester NUJ member James Fal...
July 28 2011, 11.03AM Manchester MULE
Women asylum seekers march for justice
Women asylum seekers and refugees from Manchester will take to the streets of Liverpool on Friday to demand justice in an asylum system which they ...
July 26 2011, 6.52PM Manchester MULE
Nepali asylum seekers allege “physical abuse†during removal attempt
Two Manchester-based Nepali asylum seekers, Govinda Pokharel and Jamuna Rijal, have alleged they were beaten by private security guards contracted ...
July 20 2011, 11.09AM Hackney Citizen
Twenty arrested in Dalston immigration and drugs swoop
A joint operation by Hackney Police, Hackney Council and the UK Border Agency cracks down on Class A drug dealing and immigration offences in Ridle...
June 8 2011, 4.43PM Manchester MULE
Revealed: Squalid conditions in refugee housing
Shocking living standards for some Manchester asylum seekers have been revealed following a Real Radio investigation aided by Mule. Read on to see ...
May 26 2011, 7.45PM Manchester MULE
Refugee campaigners temporarily halt eviction of disabled woman
The eviction of a disabled asylum seeker, Manjeet Kaur, was halted earlier today when protestors picketed her house in Trafford. Private letting co...
May 13 2011, 10.03AM EastLondonLines
Lack of space delaying Border Agency arrests
A short-notice inspection of the UK Border Agency in Croydon has found operations to arrest suspected illegal immigrants are being delayed becau...
March 15 2011, 1.40PM Manchester MULE
Local journalist threatened with deportation
An exiled human rights activist and journalist is facing deportation to Sierra Leone after 12 years of living and working in the North West. James ...
February 4 2011, 2.36PM Manchester MULE
A child prisoner, a Santa suit and a Border Agency out of ministerial control
Clare Sambrook, 3 February 2011 In this morning’s Independent Andrew Grice reveals that the UK Border Agency locked up an 11-year-old girl in an ...
December 23 2010, 3.31PM Hackney Citizen
Hackney MP praises government action to end detention of children in asylum centres
Diane Abbott welcomes a possible 'culture shift' within the immigration system as a key Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment is honoured
December 23 2010, 1.16AM Manchester MULE
Iranian family face deportation on Thursday
Despite an intervention by a local MP it appears that the Vahidi family are to face deportation on Thursday December 23 back to Iran where they fac...
September 15 2010, 2.05PM Manchester MULE
‘We need to be there when they knock on doors to remove people’
On Saturday Manchester Anti-Deportation (MAD) Coalition had a vibrant launch as they held their first public meeting. On the agenda was how to buil...
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