Mark your calendars for Monday 25th June. NCADC will be holding a public meeting at 7pm at Praxis in Bethnal Green, London, to discuss co-ordinated campaigning against deportations to Afghanistan. While all evidence points to the security situation steadily deteriorating in Afghanistan, UKBA persists in deporting young Afghans en masse to Kabul where they face massive risks and hardship.

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30/5/12
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13 DARFURI MEN ON HUNGER STRIKE AT CAMPSFIELD DETENTION CENTRE, OXFORDSHIRE

DETENTION CENTRE MANAGEMENT ATTEMPT COVER-UP AND REFUSE PRE-BOOKED VISITORS

13 men from Darfur region of Sudan have been on hunger strike for 6
days at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre in Kidlington, near
Oxford.

They are all being held in detention without time limit and without
any idea as to what will happen to them or when they will be released
or removed. They have been held for varying periods of time; the
longest being six months. They are demanding that they all be released
and granted asylum, but would rather they were removed (to a safe
place) than held arbitrarily with no time limit. They have also
complained of their treatment inside the centre, saying that they came
here asking for refuge, and instead have been locked up and badly
treated. One man who was on hunger strike has already been released.

At 5:30am this morning a group of dozen protesters from Unity & the No Borders Network have blockaded and closed the gates at the UKBA reporting centre in Brand Street Glasgow, in protest against the continuing detention of children and the practice of early morning raids following the harrowing dawn raids and subsequent detention of two African families in the city over the last month.