131 refugee lives saved as further evidence of Mediterranean pushbacks emerge

Meanwhile, in Britain, campaigners launch legal challenge against government’s ‘medieval-style Rwanda banishment’ plans ACTIVIST rescuers saved a further 131 people in the central Mediterranean today, as more signs of illegal refugee pushbacks were discovered. The activist-run Ocean Viking rescue ship carried out what it described as a difficult operation in three-metre high waves in the

Activists celebrate ‘stunning victory’ after UK Home Office drops refugee pushback plans

ACTIVISTS celebrated “a stunning victory” today after Britain‘s Home Secretary Priti Patel abandoned her controversial plans to push refugees crossing the Channel back to France. Care4Calais, Channel Rescue, Freedom from Torture and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union brought legal challenges against the Home Office last year opposing its proposed policy of turning back

UK Border Force may have begun attempts to push refugees back across the Channel already, evidence suggests

Meanwhile, a Sudanese man drowns off the northern coast of France today ACTIVISTS have warned that the UK Border Force (UKBF) may have begun implementing the Home Office’s controversial plans to push asylum seekers back across the Channel to France. Channel Rescue, a human rights group monitoring the sea between Britain and France, said yesterday

Channel Rescue launches legal action against British Home Secretary’s plans to push refugees back to France

At least 30 people drown in the Channel today in an ‘macabre coincidence’ with the group’s announcement AN ACTIVIST group is to take British Home Secretary Priti Patel to court over her plans to have the UK Border Force push refugee boats in the Channel back to France. Channel Rescue, a grassroots human rights monitoring

UK Border Force boats seen practising refugee pushbacks

Channel Rescue witnesses border guards use jet skis to turn an overcrowded boat around UK BORDER Force vessels in the English Channel were seen taking part in drills today that, according to a human rights monitoring organisation, resemble the illegal practice of refugee pushbacks. Channel Rescue activists spotted the training exercise from the beach at

Far right mob Britain First launch ‘migrant patrol’ ship off Dover

Refugee rights organisations raise concerns over Priti Patel’s plans to use Royal Navy to make the Channel ‘unviable’ for migrants FAR-RIGHT mob Britain First launched a sailing ship at the weekend to carry out “migrant patrols” in the Channel. The hate group, whose leader Paul Golding was convicted of an offence under the Terrorism Act