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6 Sep 2017

Author:
Lizzie Dearden, Independent (UK)

Campaigners call for closing of immigration removal centre after G4S guards were filmed allegedly “choking”, mocking & abusing detainees

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... Activists have called a demonstration outside the Home Office on Wednesday, where they will highlight Mr Bigzad’s case, call for Brook House and all other immigration removal centres to be shut down, and for G4S to be stripped of its government contracts.

Organisers from the Kent Anti-Racism Network, Brighton Against Detention, SOAS Detainee Support and the Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary are also hoping to highlight the “UK’s use of indefinite detention as an abuse of human rights”...

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