As winter weather hits Manchester and snow covers the ground, a charity has issued an urgent call for warm hats, gloves, scarves and coats for destitute asylum seekers.
Manchester musicians came together at the Northern Quarter’s Night and Day café last night to raise funds to support torture survivors in the UK.
Fears of torture and rape have been raised by supporters of Sukai Jack, a detained Salford asylum seeker due to be deported to Gambia tomorrow evening.
Two women will raise funds for destitute asylum seekers this weekend by cycling 130 miles from Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford to Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Bedfordshire.
Playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey have won their right to asylum after a six-year struggle to be recognised as refugees.
Salford’s Horizon Primary Care Centre, a provider of specialist healthcare for asylum seekers in the city since 2004, could face closure in an attempt to cut NHS costs.
South Manchester Law Centre has won its right to a judicial review of Manchester City Council’s decision to end funding for specialist immigration advice described by the judge as “unique”.
