"There is no judicial oversight when someone is grabbed and detained." Felicity Laurence of Hastings Community Of Sanctuary 🧡 on Refugee Tales, detention centres, and migrants subject to horrifying conditions redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

"There is no judicial oversight when someone is grabbed and detained." Felicity Laurence of Hastings Community Of Sanctuary 🧡 on Refugee Tales, detention centres, and migrants subject to horrifying conditions redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

Love is stronger than borders🏳️‍🌈 Hastings Community Of Sanctuary 🧡 just joined Hastings Pride to stand in solidarity with all LBTQIA+ people, especially those seeking sanctuary. Our groups campaign hard for a fair & compassionate asylum system. Because everyone deserves to live & love in safety🧡

"The rest – that is 15,876 human beings – languished until someone ordered their release back into the community whence they had been taken away." Felicity Laurence of Hastings Community Of Sanctuary 🧡 reports on a refugee storytelling campaign redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/…

Join us on Friday 6th September at 5pm, at Goat Ledge steps opposite Warrior Square Gardens in St Leonards, to mourn the 12 people who tragically lost their lives in the Channel today, and to fight for the living. We call for safe passage now! City of Sanctuary UK 🧡 Together With Refugees 🧡

"Almost half of the women surveyed said that living in a Home Office hotel made them feel suicidal, with complaints of voyeurism from male hotel staff entering their rooms without permission when they were naked or partly dressed, [&] sexual harassment from male staff". Horrific.

Life in Israeli torture camps. For all those UK politicians, UK media that don't speak out against these atrocities, they are complicit, they are responsible for the continuation of these crimes.

⚫️ TONIGHT: EMERGENCY DEMO - 6PM OUTSIDE MURIEL MATTERS HOUSE. 🟢 Join us to demand action following this morning's horrendous slaughter in Al-Mawasi. 🔴 Statement: horrific Al-Mawasi massacre demands action from our leaders. #CeasefireNOW #StopArmingIsrael #BDS

A powerful piece by Felicity Laurence of HCoS on the scandal of indefinite immigration detention in the UK, and how the government must put a stop to it. As she points out, HCoS has been campaigning on this issue, and Hastings stands proudly with refugees. hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/cam…

At our rally after Tuesday's massacre at Al-Mawasi, the message we read from the Al-Mawasi Resilience Cmte: “Dear friends, we are fine, thank God. But we are in great pain because the massacre can only be described as genocide. There are entire families that have disappeared...”

Not sure that you’re going to learn what a compassionate and fair response to migration and refugees looks like from the Meloni govt Keir Starmer. Much better to engage with UNHCR, Refugee Council 🧡 Women for Refugee Women 🧡 and Hastings Community Of Sanctuary 🧡

Please read this crucial thread from Women for Refugee Women 🧡 on why Keir Starmer is deeply wrong to take inspiration from Italy's far-right government in considering sending people seeking asylum to Albania for their claims to be processed. Offshoring is always dehumanising and abusive.

We need safe and legal routes now!

"I came here for safety and I've come into danger." Women seeking safety in the UK are subjected to degrading and dehumanising treatment in hotel accommodation. Mercy and Madiha share their experiences with Lauren Crosby Medlicott for the Big Issue. bigissue.com/news/social-ju… 1/🧵

Very well said. As @ravsrm points out, many of the people fleeing to Britain are coming here as a result of wars that we ourselves have started or been complicit in.

'I fled LGBTQ+ attacks in Kenya - but the Home Office say it's safe for me to go back' Virginia is an extraordinary woman, running her own campaign to stay in the UK. Please share her story & let’s help her stay here in safety & freedom. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

A new scholarship by the University of Oxford for Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank. Please consider applying or sharing with those interested. scholarship will cover course fees, a grant for living costs, as well as additional support towards arrival costs. ox.ac.uk/news/2024-09-1…

It is utterly shameful that the UK still has not provided safe and legal routes for Sudanese people to come here, amidst the horrific war in Sudan. The same is true of Congo, Palestine, and many, many other places.

Absolutely horrific situation in Lebanon. The UK must stop helping Israel drive people from their homes, by halting the supply of weapons to that regime.

Mothers and their children have been subjected to appalling treatment at the Gatwick immigration detention facility, as detailed in a new report. Cruelty is at the heart of the UK immigration system - we must do better. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…