Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
John Grayson is an independent researcher and adult educator. He is an activist and campaigner with SYMAAG (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group). He writes regularly for openDemocracy and for the Institute of Race Relations news service www.irr.org.uk
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Published in: Shine A LightEXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of SanctuarySince Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders...
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Published in: Shine A LightBritain’s housing crisis: Refugee family given just one week to find new homeJayne and her children won their long battle for the right to stay in the UK. Then they faced a fresh fight, with...
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Published in: Shine A LightRodents, bedbugs, mould: UK asylum housing still a hostile environmentA Manchester asylum hostel run by Britain’s biggest outsourcer Serco is riddled with cockroaches, rodents and bedbugs.
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Published in: Shine A LightMothers and children unlawfully housed in Sheffield B&Bs for years
Women and young children routinely placed in shared hostels with vulnerable homeless men.
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Published in: Shine A LightUK migration rules make children homelessCouncils are forcing children into homelessness and destitution simply because of their parents’ migration status.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘Please get me moved from here!’ Pregnant woman in G4S asylum housingRefugee and asylum seeking women are shockingly over-represented in the records of UK maternal deaths. Yet pregnant...