Over 50 women have been on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Prison near Bedford since Friday 5th February, demanding their immediate release from indefinite detention.

Serco, the company that runs Yarl's Wood on behalf of the UK Border Agency, has tried to brutally repress the hunger strike, most notably on Monday 8th February when Serco guards locked the hunger strikers in a corridor for 8 hours without access to water or toilet facilities.

DEMO IN SOLIDARITY WITH YARL'S WOOD HUNGER STRIKERS
WEDNESDAY 17th FEBRUARY
6.30pm-7.30pm, OUTSIDE HOLLOWAY PRISON, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU

On Friday 5th February 84 women started a hunger strike in Yarl's Wood Immigration
Detention Centre near Bedford, demanding their release.

On Monday 8th February the hunger strikers were locked up by the centre's guards for 8
hours, without access to water or toilet facilities. Four women were picked out as
"ringleaders" and were taken to various prisons. All are now incarcerated in HMP Holloway.