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Children at Manston asylum processing centre in Kent
[Soas Detainee Support]
CHILDREN have been calling out for help over the barbed wire fence of an asylum processing centre at Manston, where campaigners warn of an unfolding “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Migrants’ rights activists who staged a small protest outside the facility on Sunday told the Morning Star they were surprised to see “dozens” of young children, including toddlers, inside the compound.
The group described the site in Kent as an “internment camp,” with 4,000 asylum-seekers held in deteriorating conditions, many sleeping in large communal marquees without proper sleeping facilities.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thousands strike to ‘save hostages and stop military escalation’ in Gaza
After being silenced and ejected from council meetings over Palestine, MARY MASON joined 3,000 activists from 50 countries in an ambitious attempt to break through to besieged Rafah — only to face police beatings and detention in the Egyptian desert