Asylum-seekers held at former army base go on hunger strike to demand ‘basic human rights’
Pro-migrant demonstrators outside Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent, in October 2020
by Bethany Rielly
FIFTEEN asylum-seekers have gone on hunger strike at a former army base in Kent to demand “basic human rights” and a move to “safe” accommodation.
One of the hunger strikers, who has been living in Napier Barracks in Folkestone for more than three months, told the Morning Star that they are fearful of catching Covid-19 in the overcrowded facility.
About 400 men are being held behind high fences and barbed wire at the ex-army base, where conditions have been described as “inhumane” and “unsanitary.”
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