{"id":7814,"date":"2010-09-05T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=7814"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:57:27","slug":"bail-for-immigration-detainees-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=7814","title":{"rendered":"Bail for Immigration Detainees BiD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BID believes that asylum seekers and migrants in the UK have a right to liberty and should be protected from arbitrary and prolonged detention by effective and accessible legal safeguards. We are an independent charity that exists to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve access to bail for all immigration detainees.<\/li>\n<li>Lobby for detention to be subject to regular, independent and automatic judicial review.<\/li>\n<li>Work towards an end to arbitrary detention in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>End the detention of families with children &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/about\/work.htm\">about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/index.htm\">Homepage<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/obtaining\/notebook.htm\">Resources for detainees<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/obtaining\/practitioners.htm\">Help from BiD<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/news\/releases.htm\">News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/library\/archive.htm\">Archives<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/immigration\/voices.htm\">Voices from detention<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/library\/children.htm\">Children in detention<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/immigration\/facts.htm\">Facts, Figures<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/library\/newsletters.htm\">Annual report<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/immigration\/findout.htm\">Find out<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/getinvolved\/getinvolved.htm\">Support<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/contact\/contact.htm\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biduk.org\/about\/work.htm\">About 2\/2<\/a>: &#8230; BID&rsquo;s Activities: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing free information and support to detainees to help them exercise their right to liberty and make their own bail applications in court.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing and presenting free applications for release on bail or temporary admission for detainees.<\/li>\n<li>Carrying out research and using evidence gathered to campaign to end arbitrary detention.<\/li>\n<li>Documenting and publicising injustices we see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BID&rsquo;s Achievements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2007\/8, BID applied for bail for 241 detainees, 51 of whom were released from detention.<\/li>\n<li>We supported a further 1,927 people to make their own applications for bail or temporary admission, 330 of which were successful.<\/li>\n<li>In February 2008, BID won a high court battle to secure a landmark judgement that the Home Secretary had unlawfully detained three Algerian men for over a year.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007 and 2008, BID published the first research to expose the detrimental impact on detainees of new government policies, including the fast-tracking of asylum cases in detention and video link bail hearings.<\/li>\n<li>In 2007, BID published &lsquo;Obstacles to accountability&rsquo;, an up-to-date analysis of the gaps between detention policy and practice, designed for use by practitioners working to challenge the detention of families.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BID believes that asylum seekers and migrants in the UK have a right to liberty and should be protected from arbitrary and prolonged detention by effective and accessible legal safeguards. We are an independent charity that exists to: Improve access to bail for all immigration detainees. Lobby for detention to be subject to regular, independent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=7814\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Bail for Immigration Detainees BiD&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16961,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7814\/revisions\/16961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}