After six years living in the United Kingdom, she was detained for five and then seven months. This is the story of a Cameroonian woman who saw people die in detention and gives her account to The Prisma.
Human Rights
A Latino behind bars: José’s detention
Neither the fact that his papers were being processed nor his mobility problems were enough to stop this Venezuelan being detained for nearly 4 months in a detention centre for immigrants in the UK. Here he describes the raids, the scant medical attention and the tricks of the Home Office to force deportation.
A genocide does not just happen, we allow it to happen
Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, has identified the 8 stages of a genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. These 8 stages are predictable but not inexorable and at each of them, there may be preventive measures in order to stop it.
Muslims in British society: few rights and few freedoms
Islamophobia is leading to a weakening of civil liberties. Extreme right-wing and fascist groups are trying to use hatred of Muslim communities for their own ends.
Refugees and borders
This text is written when domestic and international pressure seems to be weakening the UK conservative government’s hard position towards refugees as in recent hours information has emerged about an announcement that Cameron might give soon. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the conservative […]
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