John McDonnell MP (British Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington).
London, 15/06/2015 Today, activists from "All African Women's Group", protesters, Human Right activists, politicians and member of the public gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to protest against the alleged inhuman conditions of the detainees of Yarl's Wood detention centre (showed in a recent Channel 4 undercover investigation - http://bit.ly/1E6X4pz) and to call for the...
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John McDonnell MP (British Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington).
London, 15/06/2015 Today, activists from "All African Women's Group", protesters, Human Right activists, politicians and member of the public gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to protest against the alleged inhuman conditions of the detainees of Yarl's Wood detention centre (showed in a recent Channel 4 undercover investigation -
http://bit.ly/1E6X4pz) and to call for the immediate closure of all detention centres on British soil. The demonstration ended peacefully outside the gates of Downing Street, where the police did not accept to hand the report "Rape And Sexual Abuse In Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, 2005 – 2015" to Number 10 because the 'petition protocol' was not respected.
<<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.com), who describe 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.com at
http://bit.ly/1GiTFWB).
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