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UK: Protests and Hunger Strikes Are Breaking Out at Immigration Detention Centers in the UK

12 March 2015

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"Protests are spreading throughout the UK's immigration removal centers, with hunger strikes and yard occupations breaking out across at least six UK detention centers.

"Migrants and asylum seekers are protesting the conditions in which they are held, following a damning Parliamentary report last week, which called for limits of the length of time people can be detained, better conditions and an end to incarcerating pregnant and vulnerable people who have committed no crime."

See the full article: Protests and Hunger Strikes Are Breaking Out at Immigration Detention Centers in the UK (Vice News, link)

See also: Coach blockade to stop mass deportation to Afghanistan (Anti-Raids Network, link) and: Put Immigration Detention on trial - STOP the expansion of Campsfield (Public Hearing) (heyevent, link).

Some context: Parliamentarians call for "very radical shift in thinking" on immigration detention (Statewatch News Online)

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