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Bedford (Bedfordshire, England), 03/12/2016. Today, more than two thousand activists and members of the public from across the UK gathered outside the notorious Yarl's Wood I.R.C. Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire, lead by the "Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary" to protest against the alleged inhuman conditions of the detainees (showed in a recent Channel 4 undercover investigation - http://bit.ly/1E6X4pz) and to call for its immediate closure. <<Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre is a detention centre for foreign nationals prior to their deportation from the United Kingdom, one of 13 such centres currently in the UK. It is located near Milton Ernest in Bedfordshire, England, and is operated by Serco (British outsourcing company based in Hook, Hampshire. It operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools on behalf of its customers - Source Wikipedia.org), who describes the place as "a fully contained residential centre housing adult women and adult family groups awaiting immigration clearance." Its population is, and has been, overwhelmingly female. […] >> (Source - Wikipedia.org at http://bit.ly/1GiTFWB). The protest of today was the 10th demo organised at Yarl's Wood I.R.C. and the largest ever at a detention centre in the UK.<br />
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For more information please click here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1774538206143537/ & http://www.movementforjustice.org/
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Bedford (Bedfordshire, England), 03/12/2016. Today, more than two thousand activists and members of the public from across the UK gathered outside the notorious Yarl's Wood I.R.C. Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire, lead by the "Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary" to protest against the alleged inhuman conditions of the detainees (showed in a recent Channel 4 undercover investigation - http://bit.ly/1E6X4pz) and to call for its immediate closure. <<Yarl's Wood...
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