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Hundreds of immigration inmates begin hunger strike
Protests erupt around Britain against detention
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.
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