Over 20 women have been on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Prison near Bedford since Friday 5th February, calling for their immediate release.
Last week 55 detainees began a hunger strike at Harmondsworth Immigration Prison.
There will be a fundraiser for the Yarl's Wood solidarity campaign on Tuesday 23rd March.
Yarl's Wood Migrant Solidarity are calling a demonstration at midday on Sunday, 14 March in solidarity with the women on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. We join these women in their protest against the detention of migrants. We support their bravery and we oppose immigration laws that restrict the freedom of movement of those in need.
Saturday 13th March 2010
midday - 1pm
Demonstrate outside Harmondsworth immigration prison, Heathrow
Detainee Solidarity London is calling for a demo this Saturday at Harmondsworth in solidarity with the 55 detainees on hunger strike since Tuesday 2nd March.
Thursday 11th March, 7pm
SOAS, Russell Square. (Room TBC but please meet on the steps outside the main building just before 7pm)
Meeting to discuss support and solidarity demos for women in Yarl's Wood on hunger strike since Friday 5th February.
Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU
Wednesday 3rd March, 6.30pm-7.30pm
Demo at Holloway Prison in support of the three hunger strikers imprisoned there as well as the twenty women still refusing food at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre.
Anti-detention campaigners held a protest at Yarl's Wood immigration
prison in Bedfordshire today (Sunday 21st February) in solidarity with women detainees who have been on hunger strike since 5th February.
Activists from London NoBorders, Campaign Against Immigration Controls and Feminist Fightback managed to get past the prison's security barriers and walk around the barbed-wire fence with banners, shouting solidarity slogans via loudspeakers and making noise with pots and whistles for well over an hour.
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.
London NoBorders calls for the immediate release of the hunger
strikers and an end to immigration prisons and is calling for a demo in solidarity with the hungers strikers on Friday 26th February at 2.30pm outside Serco's offices at 18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn), London, WC1V 6JF. Please bring banners and instruments.
