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REVEALED The “inhumane” treatment of migrants rounded up in a “futile” operation for the now scrapped Rwanda scheme, has been laid bare in testimonies from Home Office staff that reveal force was used against distressed detainees. Our latest The Observer theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

How an immigrant in a Home Office detention centre died while on suicide watch 🔴Aaron Walawalkar and Cahal Milmo report: trib.al/uDLvgnj

A vulnerable man put on suicide watch in a Home Office immigration removal centre may have lain undiscovered for hours after taking his own life, an inquest into his death has heard. 1/4 libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/man-o…

This week LI has been reporting from this tragic inquest into the death of Frank Ospina, who died after spending three weeks in a privately-run Home Office immigration removal centre. He was on twice-hourly observations at the time following self harm/suicide attempts.

Immigration detainee died after Home Office centre’s ‘multiple failings’ 🔴 Frank Ospina, a Colombian national, lay undiscovered for at least two hours on 26 March last year trib.al/mYchaDF

Migrants held at a Home Office detention centre faced a month-long wait for mental health assessments at the time one man took his own life. Read our report below libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/migra… 🧵1/5 CW: suicide

Today is my last day at openDemocracy. It has been an incredible six years or so, full of investigations, reports, information tribunals, prizes and nominations, speeches and events (as well as sparking a parliamentary inquiry and organising a major FOI conference).

A coroner has criticised a detention centre operator for not letting a mother hug her distraught son before he took his life. In a prevention of future deaths report, a coroner has raised concerns about why Frank Ospina's mother was only able to see him through a glass screen.

Maria, Frank's mother, said: “I was desperate to just give him a hug as I believed this was a way to bring him back to reality." The coroner has also criticised the failure of the detention centre GP to make a report about Frank's suicide attempts.

The report, obtained by Liberty Investigates Aaron Walawalkar who have been following this case closely, was sent to the home secretary, NHS England and Mitie. More here: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

NEW A coroner has demanded action to prevent further suicides in immigration detention, criticising a detention centre operator for not letting a mother hug her distraught son before he took his life. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

How are pro-Palestinian student protests being policed? Our investigation has found instances of universities reporting protesters to police, starting dozens of disciplinaries, and in some instances universities collaborating with private surveillance firms. Watch my report

NEW Today we publish our latest investigation with Sky News revealing the extent of disciplinary actions universities have taken over pro-Palestine protests - and the level of collaboration between unis, the police and even private intelligence firms🧵1/ news.sky.com/story/new-evid…

From the carer’s allowance scandal to an investigation into British universities’ harsh measures against pro-Palestinian protests on campus... The shortlist for the 2025 Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism has been announced!  The winner, who will receive a prize of

Our Aaron Walawalkar and Harriet Clugston have been shortlisted for the Private Eye Magazine Paul Foot Award for their work uncovering the inside story of a crackdown on student Gaza activism at UK universities. A thread on their reports with Metro, Sky News and The Guardian 🧵

Our journalism has been nominated for the Private Eye Magazine Paul Foot Award Congrats to Harriet Clugston Aaron Walawalkar and Izzy Losseff for such a great team and such an important piece

Great work from our team josh milton and the amazing Liberty Investigates Aaron Walawalkar and Harriet Clugston to pull it all together and to be recognised in one of the most prestigious awards in journalism is class.

Repeated failings at migrant hotel where asylum seeker killed himself exposed Dedicated reporting into the death of Victor Pereira Vargas at a Home Office asylum hotel from Liberty Aaron Walawalkar published with The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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