Bedford, UK. 21st July 2018. Detainees inside Yarl's Wood who can get to the windows facing the protest look and put up posters in the mmigration detention centre windows. Guards tried to stop them joining in the protest by offers of free ice cream and trying to prevent them reaching these windows. Those inside protest together with those outside against the shameful racist UK immigration system that keeps many locked up inside indefinitely, often for many months or ever years because the Home Office refuses to believe them or properly investigate their cases. Credit: Peter Marshall/Alamy Live
Bedford, UK. 21st July 2018. Detainees inside Yarl's Wood who can get to the windows facing the protest look and put up posters in the mmigration detention centre windows. Guards tried to stop them joining in the protest by offers of free ice cream and trying to prevent them reaching these windows. Those inside protest together with those outside against the shameful racist UK immigration system that keeps many locked up inside indefinitely, often for many months or ever years because the Home Office refuses to believe them or properly investigate their cases. Investigations and reports have condemned again and again appalling conditions under which people are held in this and other centres run by private companies such as SERCO, with detainees refused their human and civil rights, assaulted, sexually harassed and assaulted, denied proper medical treatment, poorly fed and forced to work for £1 an hour on menial tasks. The protest saw some of the women waving from windows and heard their stories over a mobile phone link, and were able to hear and join with them chanting inside for freedom and for Yarl's Wood to be closed down. There were a number of speeches from protesters, almost all from former detainees. The protest was the 14th organised in support of the women of Yarl's Wood by Movement for Justice. Peter Marshall/Alamy Live News
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