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Solidarity with Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie and Leigh Day! Everyone deserves representation, and we need a strong and vocal civic society to protect the rule of law and hold power accountable.

Immigration stats are out & disprove the Government’s toxic narrative. 71% of asylum decisions resulted in grants of protection. By far, most people reaching our shores are refugees – men, women and children fleeing the most unimaginable horrors.

The govt should be making sure everyone can afford to put food on the table - not spying on us while we do our shopping Our letter in today's Times with 12 other groups calling for an end to invasive facial recognition tech, and more support for people who are struggling ⬇️

this piece from Streets Kitchen on why they’ll continue to give out tents to people experiencing homelessness, even if suella makes it illegal is urgent, vital reading: a no-holds barred look at the reality of homelessness in this country+ how we stop it. huckmag.com/article/suella…

Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton, reads a powerful poem by our client Malachi (pseudonym), who has been GPS-tagged by the UK Home Office. Show your solidarity by writing to your MP to stop GPS tagging: bid.eaction.org.uk/StopGPStagging

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The UK government’s policy of GPS tagging asylum seekers arriving in the UK has been found UNLAWFUL, in a powerful decision by the data protection regulator, ICO - Information Commissioner's Office. This is huge. 🧵 ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

Where do refugees come to the UK from? *2023 edition*

'Some 24 per cent of Londoners said that if they got to their polling station and had forgotten their photo ID, they would “forget about it and get on with [their] day”. The figure jumps to 37 per cent among 18-24 year olds.' standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

In this morning's Times: new figures show 0.58 per cent of national income spent on foreign aid last year – £15.4bn But more than a quarter of the aid budget – £4.3bn – was spent on refugee and asylum costs in the UK, £600m more than the year before thetimes.co.uk/article/quarte…

Great to talk to Sky News yesterday about electoral law, what it is, and whether breaches matter

⚠️ Know that our legal advisors will do everything within their power to keep survivors of torture in our care safe. Please do what you can to support Freedom from Torture🧡 and other charities who help refugees at this time. We need you 🧡 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

🚨Reports indicate the Home Office is detaining asylum seekers with plans to send them to Rwanda. While only a few will be sent due to limited capacity, there's still a risk for many. Read our explainer on who's at risk and how can you receive help 👇🏽

BREAKING We said we would #DefendDemocracy... AND WE'VE WON our case against Government anti-protest laws that completely ignored the will of Parliament

S2E3 Emergency Pod: Elections: "I worry for Count Binface". @Jamesroochove of Astraea Linskills discusses with Tom when election candidates, including @hangus99 H'Angus the Monkey, can legally be held to their promises pod.link/1709853053 #election #law #manifesto #legal

People making light of this shouldn't. People were dragged from their accommodation into detention. People went on hunger strikes, self-harmed. Some were bound and carried onto planes. The wider impact of all of this was to strike terror in the asylum-seeker community.

FtT allows BID’s appeal re FOI requests to Home Office for details of ETD requests for Eritrea and Somalia. assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/grc/2024… “The public interest in disclosure put forward by BID is compelling. For hundreds of years, the common law has demanded that…