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Hundreds demand end to ‘illegal and inhumane’ Manston detention centre
Protesters outside the Manston immigration short-term holding facility located at the former Defence Fire Training and Development Centre in Thanet, Kent
HUNDREDS of people staged a protest outside Manston today to demand the closure of the “illegal and inhumane” detention centre.
Around 200 people braved the pouring rain to gather at the gates of the former RAF base in Kent, where thousands of asylum-seekers, including pregnant women and children, have been detained in harrowing conditions, with reports of outbreaks of scabies and diphtheria.
Protest organisers, the Action Against Detention and Deportation coalition, said the aim of the demo was also to send a message of solidarity to people inside.
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