Bedford, UK. 21st July 2018. Around a hundred campaigners, including many former detainees march to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre to protest together with those held inside, mainly women, 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 News
Bedford, UK. 21st July 2018. Around a hundred campaigners, including many former detainees march to Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre to protest together with those held inside, mainly women, 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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