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Detention centre death triggers protests
Harmondsworth immigration removal centre

PROTESTS have been staged inside and outside Europe’s largest immigration detention centre after a man was found dead, amid fears over a mass deportation flight planned for Tuesday night.

Nigerian man Oscar Okwurime died at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in west London on Thursday evening.

Fellow detainees staged a protest in a courtyard on Friday morning, holding up a sheet saying “RIP Oscar.”

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