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NEARLY 200 migrants held in British detention centres went on hunger strike at the weekend as part of global demonstrations against immigrant detentions and deportations.
The mass hunger strike followed a wave of protests across Britain held simultaneously at its most infamous detention centres.
At Middlesex’s Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, 190 detainees refused to eat lunch and a further 50 occupied the complex’s yard over “non-human” living conditions.
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals
