Detained Lives: the real cost of indefinite ... - Detention Action

detained lives
Written and researched by Jerome Phelps, with
Tamsin Alger, Anna Beesley, Raj Bera, Shashika
Heiyantuduwa, Robbie Henderson, Loren Lam,
Natasha Smyth, Alexis Wood.
London Detainee Support Group
January 2009
acknowledgements
We are grateful to the detainees in Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Dover Immigration Removal Centres who
contributed the initial idea for this research and agreed to be interviewed: Omar Abdirahman, Achene, Liban Al Kadi,
Zyad Al-Saadon, Ned Asad, Karim Benhamou, Ibrahim Muhammad Bojang, Rafik Bouzid, Daniel, Anthony Dlamini,
Jafar, Abdou Jammeh, Joseph Lumba, Mehdi Harkat, Ahmed Abu Bakar Hassan, Lawrence, Mohamed Mohamed,
Mojtaba, Ara Navid, Hassan Ravandy, Reza, Mohammed Ali Saad, Ali Saifi, Shirazi.
Many thanks to all the LDSG volunteers and committee members without whose help this project would have been
impossible, including Ghias Al-Jundi, Anny Ash, Tamsin Berry, Kate Blagojevic, Alice Bradley, Ricardo Carvalho,
Hermione Harris, Anneberth Lux, Aoife O’Higgins, Lani Parker, Dominic Riley, Andrew Sen, Klara Simova, Nick
Trepka, Jessica Turner, Didi Wambugu, Caroline White, Christian Williams, Kailly Woodroffe and Helen Yuill.
Thank you also to Richard Dunstan, Maria Gonzalez Dardagan and Eiri Ohtani for their help and advice.
We are particularly grateful to Doughty Street Chambers for their sponsorship of this research.
LDSG is supported by 29th May 1961 Charitable
Trust, AB Charitable Trust, AW.60 Charitable
Trust, Bromley Trust, City Parochial Foundation,
Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust, Helen Tetlow
Memorial Fund, Jill Franklin Trust, LankellyChase
Foundation, Matrix Chambers, The Norda Trust,
Odin Charitable Trust, Rowan Charitable Trust, Sir
Halley Stewart Charitable Trust.
Design by Loren Lam.
Art by Reza.
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