Shut Down Yarls Wood 12
Yarl's Wood, Bedford. Sat 18 Nov 2017
A woman who was released only a few days earlier returns to speak,
thanking MfJ and greeting her friends still inside
'These People need Protection not Detention'
Many Movement for Justice supporters are former detainees
'China' , 'China', 'Release Us', 'We Need Freedom' , '5 Months In
No End In Sight' , 'Release'
None of these people should be locked up. There is no good reason
to lock any of them up. Some need help
and protection. All need to be treated as human beings, not pawns
in a numbers game to satisfy the racist right.
Karen speaks, and she is ringing up people inside and getting them
to speak to us
and to wave to us
and people wave back. It gets hard to take pictures because so many
are waving and holding up placards
'Detention is Violence' and cost-cutting private companies employing
badly paid and largely untrained staff make it worse
Many reports have shown ill-treatment, bullying, harassment, assaults,
sexual assaults taking place in these prisons
food is poor and often unsuitable, people have to work for £1
an hour. The only answer is to shut them down and
free the detainees. This man (whose name I didn't catch) was held
in three different detention centres
A Palestinian man who was held in detention wears a Palestinian flag
'Women of Yarl's Wood You Are Powerful And Strong Fighters - Together
We WIll Win'
Isatou, another recently released detainee speaks. Like the others
she praises MfJ for their work and giving her hope.
Karen listens as a phone call from a woman inside is heard over the
loudspeakers
Set Her Free - Freedom for Migrants - Shut Down Yarls Wood
The light was falling and the protest would end shortly. I was getting cold and decided I had to leave, and pushed my bike back to the road for the journey back to Bedford station. Fortunately apart from one short steep hill it was mainly downhill.
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