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Huge protest haunted by harrowing cries for help
Biggest Yarl’s Wood detention centre protest hears from the women held inside

Harrowing cries for help came from women inside Yarl’s Wood detention centre yesterday, as the largest ever protest outside the facility took place. 

The Set Her Free protest brought over 300 people to the site in the Bedfordshire countryside for a four-hour long protest, with speeches from previous detainees and chanting from supporters. 

Movement for Justice, which holds solidarity actions with migrants in detention awaiting deportation, said this was by far their largest event held at Yarl’s Wood. 

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