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Last year the UK Home Office detained approximately 30,000 people across a network of 13 detention centres. People are often incarcerated in these centres for immigration reasons without trial or charge....
The excessive use (and length) of pre-trial detention is one of the main causes of prison overpopulation. Owing to the risk of flight, non-resident suspects are often remanded in custody, while residents...
Follows the struggles of asylum seekers in Britain for recognition of their basic human rights and investigates abuses on asylum seekers in detention centre and prisons. Documents the growing number of...
A study of ‘safe custody’ detention in prisons in Bangladesh. Thousands of people are held, it is claimed, for their own protection, but they often held there for years before their cases are heard....
A video-based teaching pack which uses clips from the IBT/Yorkshire television documentary series THE DISPOSSESSED, adapted for schools. Includes testimonies and views of refugees from Eritrea, Turkish...
Shot clandestinely in South Africa during the State of Emergency and press ban in 1985, the film exposes the extent of apartheid’s violence and brutality. Testimonies of victims, as well as eye witnesses...
An investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians, featuring shocking video evidence of men, women and children being subjected to beatings, whippings and more elaborate torture. In this...
Both controversial and relentless in its depiction of suppression and brutality, PUNISHMENT PARK was heavily attacked by the mainstream press and permitted only the barest of releases in 1971. Peter...
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