Andy Hull

EachOther released a documentary called Excluded in December 2020. This was a project that I worked on as producer and director, during my previous role as Creative Director at the charity. I’ve written and spoken about the process of putting that film together before and you can watch it and access the wide range of stories we created about it here in the Spotlight I developed in support of the film. This article isn’t about the making of the film; it’s about the conversations that came next.

Today, we at EachOther launch a new crowdfunding campaign to help change the world with a human rights comic. The comic book we plan to produce will help immigration detainees know their rights and secure their freedom. Immigration detention in the UK During the course of a year, roughly 28,000 people are detained in the UK’s seven immigration removal centres.

Muslims have felt targeted by the Prevent policy since its inception. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) found that Prevent is generally ‘seen through the prism of Islamic extremism leading to terrorism’. There was much outcry, then, following the appointment of Sir William Shawcross, a former director of neoconservative thinktank the Henry Jackson Society, as Independent Reviewer of Prevent.