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UK: New immigration detention centre

01 January 1994

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On 29 November 1993 the first detainees arrived at Campsfield House immigration detention centre, a former borstal at Kidlington near Oxford. The centre has 200 places and is in an isolated site near Kidlington airport, making it difficult for legal advisers, relatives and friends to see those detained there. Campaigners from anti-racist and refugee support groups pointed out that immigration prisoners, numbering over 10,000 a year have, committed no crime and are often refugees fleeing from imprisonment and ill-treatment in their countries of origin. Almost alone in Europe, British law has no statutory time limit within which Immigration Act detainees, whether asylum-seekers or deportees, must be released, and some are held for months -and occasionally, for over a year.

Weekly Journal 9.12.93; CARF No 18 Jan-Feb 1994.

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