Some of End Deportations Belfast at International Women’s Day in Belfast
Some of us had the banner out today. No Borders, especially on International Women’s Day.
Shut Down Larne House
Headline - Larne immigration centre: MLAs call for end to detention of pregnant women - Campaign letter has been signed by over 300 individuals including nine MPS and 35 local councillors
Our International Women’s Day 2026 Statement. We reiterate that no form of feminism is compatible with tolerance of immigration detention. In Larne House immigration detention centre, marginalised genders are incarcerated, degraded and harmed.
enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/i...
Headline - Larne immigration centre: MLAs call for end to detention of pregnant women - Campaign letter has been signed by over 300 individuals including nine MPS and 35 local councillors
Our International Women’s Day 2026 Statement. We reiterate that no form of feminism is compatible with tolerance of immigration detention. In Larne House immigration detention centre, marginalised genders are incarcerated, degraded and harmed.
enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/i...
witness testimony: LIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION SIGNS present in holyhead stena port. testimony also reports LARGE NUMBERS OF OFFICERS after id checking stage, racially profiling 'the only people of colour passing through' for additional checks.
We've received a witness testimony from the Dublin to Holyhead Stena journey last week. The testimony reports Live Facial Recognition Tech signs in the port and clear racial profiling of passengers coming from Ireland by UK officers. All passengers passed through the ID checking stage .. [1/n]
Each PSNI Live Facial Recognition Tech van to cost £200k plus staffing.
As if paying PSNI's data breach compensation, their legal settlements, and their lawsuits wasn’t enough - the force wants more. Today's response to the Policing Board reports the cost of each Live Facial Recognition Tech vans as £200,000 per vehicle plus staffing.
Photo of a Taser ans info contained in the post regarding Taser being drawn 282 times in a year - their use up 22%.
PSNI drew Tasers 282 times, up 22% in the last year of records. In a Policing Board question relating to the risk Taser poses to epilepsy sufferers, the Chief Constable response acknowleged that 'electrical pulses can trigger abnormal brain activity leading to seizure.' End Taser use now. [1/3]
'It’s estimated that around 300 Irish men and women would play their part in supporting the International Brigades.
To honour their service, the International Brigades Commemoration Committee will unveil a plaque with their names at the Falls Road library in late April.'
‼️ Today's speech by the Home Secretary marks the end of a week in which we've been drip-fed a series of hostile and cruel asylum policies.
Each one points in the same direction: further penalising and harming people who are simply seeking safety here.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/🧵
Today's Policing Board question on Taser and epilepsy. [3/3]
www.nipolicingboard.org.uk/questions/ta...
Why End Deportations Belfast oppose Taser. [2/3]
enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/t...
Photo of a Taser ans info contained in the post regarding Taser being drawn 282 times in a year - their use up 22%.
PSNI drew Tasers 282 times, up 22% in the last year of records. In a Policing Board question relating to the risk Taser poses to epilepsy sufferers, the Chief Constable response acknowleged that 'electrical pulses can trigger abnormal brain activity leading to seizure.' End Taser use now. [1/3]
Each PSNI Live Facial Recognition Tech van to cost £200k plus staffing.
As if paying PSNI's data breach compensation, their legal settlements, and their lawsuits wasn’t enough - the force wants more. Today's response to the Policing Board reports the cost of each Live Facial Recognition Tech vans as £200,000 per vehicle plus staffing.
...about the UK's disregard for Common Travel Area rights and racially discriminatory ID checking. [3/3]
www.thedetail.tv/articles/iri...
... but the 'only people of colour passing through' were singled out by officers in Holyhead for additional checks.
Given the civil rights, discrimination and privacy concerns around the use of Live Facial Recognition Tech on passengers, alarm bells should be sounding .. [2/3]
witness testimony: LIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION SIGNS present in holyhead stena port. testimony also reports LARGE NUMBERS OF OFFICERS after id checking stage, racially profiling 'the only people of colour passing through' for additional checks.
We've received a witness testimony from the Dublin to Holyhead Stena journey last week. The testimony reports Live Facial Recognition Tech signs in the port and clear racial profiling of passengers coming from Ireland by UK officers. All passengers passed through the ID checking stage .. [1/n]
The Home Secretary has made claims which are not true regarding migrants to push policies which will devastate lives, while increasing exploitation and people forced into becoming undocumented. These are not policies of "fairness", but instead of discrimination.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How do you think Shabana Mahmood's plans fit in with the Windsor Framework's non-diminution of rights guarantees?
So people are going to be placed in a state of fear, where it’s harder to feel secure or rebuild their lives – their working life, their family, their mental health – for no discernible reason except the perceived political advantage of the right wing of the Labour Party 8/
As Chai says here, that’s bc the framers of the Convention knew well that the reasons why people fled were often unlikely to evaporate quickly, so they had to be given a chance of stability: bear in mind that it was drafted at the start of the Cold War and immediately after the Holocaust 4/
For instance the Convention 👇includes provisions on “assimilation and naturalization of refugees” (Article 34), plus numerous measures requiring refugees to be treated equivalently to citizens in terms of work (Articles 17-18), housing (21), education (22) and recognition of qualifications (19) 2/
Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.
On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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🚨We are deeply concerned by the Government's announcement to stop issuing student visas to people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan.
This is a draconian and discriminatory measure that acts as widespread punishment for citizens of those countries.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/🧵
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Irish authorities were warned in advance of mass facial recognition scans on Dublin–Holyhead route by UK immigration enforcement.
The cost of a six-day operation, that led to one arrest, was £50,000.
Despite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms.
These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate.
Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.
The issue with the coverage of the far right is that it is generally done to make those covering it and their audience feel good about themselves rather that actually tackles the roots of the issue
We cannot defeat the far right if we refuse to address systemic forms of oppression
Just so we’re clear:
❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong
❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong
The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'By equating direct action protest with terrorism, the UK government is treating dissent as a security threat, argues Human Right Watch'
www.bigissue.com/opinion/pale...
In a world of Keir Starmers, we need more Pedro Sánchez.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
