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NEARLY 200 migrants held in British detention centres went on hunger strike at the weekend as part of global demonstrations against immigrant detentions and deportations.
The mass hunger strike followed a wave of protests across Britain held simultaneously at its most infamous detention centres.
At Middlesex’s Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, 190 detainees refused to eat lunch and a further 50 occupied the complex’s yard over “non-human” living conditions.
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets