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Picture of barbed wire silhouetted against an orange sunset. Read new academic research on how the COVID-19 pandemic made the case for detention to be abolished

The large-scale release of people in detention during the COVID-19 pandemic had no negative consequences. So why are people still being detained?
9 Jul 2024

Watch back: Risky business: detention decision-making during the pandemic

Hear from our speakers including the BID team, a former client, Zita Holbourne from BARAC & Dr Juliet Cohen from Freedom from Torture
28 Jan 2021

Immigration bail hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic

BID publishes new research on immigration bail hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic.
15 Dec 2020

Detention and deportation during covid-19: what the figures tell us

As the Home Office continue their detention & deportation regime through the pandemic, we look at what the figures tell us
17 Nov 2020

BID speaks to the Independent about the use of immigration detention during covid-19 travel ban

BID were asked to comment on the continued presence of hundreds of migrants in IRCs when there is no prospect of removal due to coronavirus travel ban
27 May 2020

BID volunteer Alice writes on the UK’s response to COVID-19 in immigration detention centres

Despite the Covid-19 risk, detention centres in the UK remain open. BID volunteer Alice compares the UK's response with other European countries.
21 Apr 2020

"Disposable lives" immigration detainees and COVID-19: BID's Rudy Schulkind writes for openDemocracy

Despite the health crisis, detention centres are still running. Rudy outlines how the plight of immigration detainees is highlighted during COVID-19.
14 Apr 2020

Help us demand the release of all immigration detainees amid public health crisis

As the Covid-19 threat intensifies we need your help to get people out of detention.
8 Apr 2020

Council of Europe Commissioner calls for the release of Immigration Detainees amid Covid-19 Crisis

Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatović calls for release of immigration detainees while Covid-19 crisis continues.
31 Mar 2020

BID COVID-19 (Coronavirus) update

These are unprecedented times & we're working as best as we can to deliver our vital work while keeping our clients, volunteers and staff safe.
18 Mar 2020

BID joins 10 organisations calling for release of immigration detainees due to Coronavirus threat

We urge the government to act immediately to prevent a full-scale crisis in immigration detention
15 Mar 2020
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