Yarl's Wood immigration centre near Bedford is the UK's main removal centre for women and families. It can hold 405 people in four wings. A hunger strike that started on Friday quickly spread. Some women, angry at being separated from their children, refused food. It is thought most of the women are Jamaican, Nigerian and Chinese, but others joined their protest. On Monday, day four of the hunger strike, a group of about 50 women tried to move around the centre and were locked in a corridor. The women say they were held there for hours on end without water or access to a toilet. They told campaigners some of them had fainted. Most of the women returned to their room without staff using force. But four women were taken away by police
Yarl's Wood immigration centre near Bedford is the UK's main removal centre for women and families. It can hold 405 people in four wings.
A hunger strike that started on Friday quickly spread. Some women, angry at being separated from their children, refused food.
It is thought most of the women are Jamaican, Nigerian and Chinese, but others joined their protest.
On Monday, day four of the hunger strike, a group of about 50 women tried to move around the centre and were locked in a corridor. The women say they were held there for hours on end without water or access to a toilet. They told campaigners some of them had fainted.
Most of the women returned to their room without staff using force. But four women were taken away by police
Away from the calamity and misery Blair's government visited upon brown people, have you seen the misery and calamity his successor's is visiting upon brown people?
