Vicky Taylor
@VEMTaylor
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Now at @vickytaylor.bsky.social Writing about criminalisation of asylum seeking in the UK
Joined July 2018
*New Data* In the first 6 months of 2024, 64 people were charged off 'small boats' with the offence of 'illegal arrival' They were sent to prison for seeking safety in the UK This practice is cruel & breaches international law @CaptainSuppUK @freeibrahimabah @humansforrights
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Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people. ✍️ @VEMTaylor
https://t.co/boA1Gb6CSc
opendemocracy.net
Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people
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Arresting refugees for 'illegal entry'. A disturbing global trend.
A total of 33 Rohingya, who allegedly crossed the Myanmar-Bangladesh border illegally, were arrested by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Bandarban district on Saturday, the Anadolu News Agency reported #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Rohingya #Bangladesh
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🚨 14 YEARS IN PRISON FOR GIVING A FAMILY MEMBER A PHONE? This could happen under the Government's Border Security Bill 🧵👇
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Not enough refugees are permitted safe access so traffickers & exploiters target them. Instead of fixing that government are maintaining the ban on people who’ve been criminally exploited from accessing slavery support, putting them in restraints & chucking them to the wolves.
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New Border Security Bill seeks to further criminalise people seeking safety in the UK. Convicting innocent people will not deter crossings, stop deaths in the Channel, or disrupt smuggling networks. Great piece by @VEMTaylor on this
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
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The Border Security Bill seeks to further criminalise people seeking safety in the UK Read about the current situation where people are imprisoned for crossing the Channel, and concerns about the new Bill here:
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
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The clear implication here is that refugees and asylum seekers, as well as the smugglers who organize their movement, should be considered to be "criminals." Totally inconsistent with the UN Refugee Convention, to which the UK is a party.
There will be no more Tory gimmicks or empty rhetoric. My message to the criminals who still think they can breach our borders is this: there is nowhere to hide. We're coming after you.
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In two communications, Human Rights Committee finds Australia exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction over detention facilities on Nauru M.I. et al. v Australia Nabhari v Australia https://t.co/gMGmAANBGG
ohchr.org
GENEVA - In two landmark decisions, the UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers redirected or transferred to offshore...
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*New article out. Open Access* “… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain. Thanks to friends, colleagues and peer-reviewers for their comments and useful suggestions 🙏 https://t.co/Pjr4KJlENN
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The Home Office accepts that its policies to “smash the gangs” results in people taking flimsier & more overcrowded dinghies across the Channel. This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today
mirror.co.uk
Heartbreaking photos show men, women and children who died this year trying to reach the UK in small boats as MPs are urged to reflect on the tragedies and stop it happening again
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Anyone looking for a wonderful organisation to donate to this Christmas, check out the wonderful @humansforrights A tiny organisation doing powerful things with people harmed by migration policies. https://t.co/icXj9pnJLk
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I've been collecting data on this for a while now. In total, since the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 created the offence of 'illegal arrival' (1st july 22) 510 people have been charged and 411 convicted having arrived on a 'small boat'
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29 of these were charged having been identified as steering a dinghy. However, none were convicted of 'facilitating' arrival, indicating it could not be proven that they were involved any further in organising the journey.
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NEW DATA: In their first three months, the @UKLabour government put 46 people in prison for their 'illegal arrival' on a 'small boat' https://t.co/2M7jEk8z5j
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You can hear more about Ibrahima's life in the new episode of Chronique à Mer, recorded with his family and mostly in his village of Kibassa in #Senegal. https://t.co/Dlrg9qQ0CC There will be no justice until there is #FreeMovementForAll! 3/
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A few days ago Ibrahima was denied permission to appeal this injustice, despite survivors saying he saved their lives. Today, and every day, our thoughts are with those who lost their lives, and also with #IbrahimaBah. We condemn this endless violence of Europe’s borders. 2/
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Two years ago today, on 14/12/22, four people died and more went missing in the #EnglishChannel. #IbrahimaBah, a Senegalese teenager, was blamed for their deaths and sentenced to 9,5 years in prison. Find out what happened here: https://t.co/QcA03sLg2c 1/
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In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions https://t.co/pFTATulbVT
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This weekend marks the 3rd anniversary since the shipwreck of 24 November 2021, where at least 27 people were killed attempting to reach the UK. In remembrance of these people and all other people killed at this border, our open letter:
crossborderforum.org
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Every week people are imprisoned for 'illegal arrival' to the UK, including by 'small boat' - this continues under Labour This includes asylum seekers, victims of modern slavery, trafficking, and age-disputed children @CaptainSuppUK is working hard to identify and support them
Ibrahima is one of over 450 people who have been charged with new offences brought in by the British Government in 2022, intended to criminalise people arriving irregularly to the UK. We call for an end to this violent practice both in the UK and across Europe.
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