BID Latest

Sign up to OutCry! - BID and The Children's Society's campaign to end immigration detention of children HERE

30/06/09 BID and The Children's Society will be speaking at a parliamentary event on alternatives to detaining children - HERE

24/06/09 BID and The Children's Society publish a report calling on the government to revise its approach to alternatives to detention - read the REPORT and our PRESS RELEASE

18/06/09 BID comments on protests by families in detention at Yarl's Wood HERE

27/04/09 BID comments on the Children's Commissioner's new report on the damage caused to children by detention HERE

20/04/09 BID has published a new briefing paper on immigration detention in London READ

17/03/09 The Court of Appeal has found that the government violated its human rights obligations at an immigration detention centre READ

05/03/09 BID has produced three new briefings on the detained fast track, access to immigration bail and children in detention READ

About BID

Bail for Immigration Detainees is an independent charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We work with asylum seekers and migrants, in removal centres and prisons, to secure their release from detention.

Learn more about BID at Human Rights TV

BID:

• Makes free applications for release from immigration detention for asylum seekers and migrants
• Publishes a Notebook on Bail which provides information to detainees to empower them to make their own applications for release
• Encourages legal representatives to make bail applications for their clients, by way of training and the 'Best Practice Guide to Challenging Immigration Detention'
• Carries out research and policy work to push for an end to the use of arbitrary immigration detention

BID is a registered charity set up in 1998, based in London, Oxford and Portsmouth. BID has eight paid staff and a large number of volunteers.

For facts and figures about detention in the UK look HERE. (updated May 2008)

All documents on the BID website are available to download as PDF files unless otherwise stated.
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