A CAMPAIGN has been launched over alleged human rights abuses suffered by asylum-seekers in hotels run on behalf of the government by outsourcing firm Serco.

Raising Our Asylum Rights’ (Roar) campaign, Resisting Racism In Hotels, was launched in Manchester last night and is supported by 17 trade union branches and campaign groups including the Peace and Justice Project which was founded by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

At the launch, one refugee told of his treatment at the Britannia Hotel, which is run by Serco in Stockport, Greater Manchester.