Connect with Unlocking Detention

Immigration detention is one of the biggest human rights scandals in the UK. The UK is the only country in Europe that does not have a maximum time limit on how long someone can be detained. Indefinite detention has a severe, damaging impact on those who are subjected to it.

But unless you have been detained, or you know somebody who is, you are very unlikely to ever visit an immigration detention centre, know where they are, or be able to imagine what it is like to be locked inside without knowing when you will be released.

Unlocking Detention (www.unlocked.org.uk) shines a spotlight on the hidden world of immigration detention. This year’s ‘tour’ runs from 16 October to 22 December 2017.

Follow the tour on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/unlockingdetention/

Or on Twitter via @DetentionForum and #Unlocked17

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlockingdetention/

On Instagram: www.instagram.com/unlockingdetention/

Through our website: www.unlocked.org.uk, www.detentionforum.org.uk

Please invite your friends, family, colleagues and supporters to do the same!

Tour dates:

  • 16 – 23 Oct: Introducing Unlocked17
  • 23 – 29 Oct: Yarl’s Wood
  • 30 Oct – 5 Nov: Brook House and Tinsley House
  • 6 – 12 Nov: Prisons and Short Term Holding Facilities
  • 13 – 19 Nov: The Verne
  • 20 – 26 Nov: Campsfield House
  • 27 Nov – 3 Dec: Harmondsworth and Colnbrook
  • 4 – 10 Dec: Morton Hall
  • 11 – 17 Dec: Dungavel

Sample tweets:

Immigration detention centres: Out of sight, out of mind? Join the virtual tour of the UK’s Detention Estate #Unlocked17 @DetentionForum

Unlocking Detention: a virtual tour of the UK’s Immigration Detention Estate. Running Oct – Dec 2017. Follow @DetentionForum #Unlocked17

Out of sight, out of mind? It’s time to shine a light on the UK’s immigration detention estate. Follow @DetentionForum and #Unlocked17.

Have you ever visited one of the UK’s immigration detention centres? Here, thousands are detained with no time limit. Visit now: #Unlocked17

In the last year, the UK detained 27,819 people for immigration purposes. There is no time limit. Find out more: #Unlocked17 @DetentionForum

Yarl’s Wood – Dungavel – Campsfield – just some of the places where the UK detains people indefinitely. Visit them virtually: #Unlocked17

The Verne, Harmondsworth, Morton Hall – do you know these names? Join the #Unlocked17 tour to learn about immigration detention in the UK.

Did you know the UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on how long someone can be held in immigration detention? #Unlocked17

Can you imagine being locked up, far from those you love, with no idea when you will be released? #Unlocked17 @DetentionForum

Speak out against immigration detention! Share your #Unlocked17 selfie with @DetentionForum >>> http://unlocked.org.uk/blog/selfies/

Sample Facebook post

Join #Unlocked17 – a virtual tour of the UK’s immigration detention estate.