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Channel Rescue
@ChannelRescue
A grass-roots, volunteer organisation monitoring small boat crossings in the English Channel on land & at sea. #SafePassage
Apr 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/5 🧵BREAKING! We’ve won - the @ukhomeoffice
has officially announced that it is going to abandon Channel pushbacks in the face of legal challenges from us, @pcs_union, @Care4Calais & @FreefromTorture. ✊💥 2/5 The abandonment of the pushback policy is thanks to the tireless work of organisations fighting against reckless, unlawful government policies. Pushbacks are a reckless endangerment to life & we have always maintained & reminded the government that they are unlawful.
Sep 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/3 Today we witnessed Border Force practising pushbacks. 2 of our vols watched in horror as dinghies, full of Border Force staff wearing life jackets, were forcibly turned around by two or three jet skis using techniques such as circling the boats and nudging with the jet skis. 2/3 The practice of pushbacks, however, is illegal under international and maritime law. This aggressive and violent behaviour puts the lives of those making the crossing at greater risk. Channel Rescue condemns this practice as reckless endangerment!
Sep 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
LIVE UPDATE: We're currently witnessing what looks like pushback drills by Border Force jet skis in the Channel. We're not 100% sure but two jet skis appear to be doing circling manoeuvres around dinghies with Border Force vessels full of people looking on. We’re 👀 @ukhomeoffice
Sep 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/4 Pushbacks are cruel, inhumane and illegal! 🚣‍♀️ Here are a few reasons why... 2/4 Every captain is obliged to provide help to people in distress unless it would endanger the captain's own ship or crew. This is spelt out in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and in the 1979 International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue.