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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.”
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
