Demonstrations took place across the country at Removal Centres and main-stream prisons to commemorate the needless deaths, show solidarity with those detained and demand an end to the deadly policy of indefinite detention of men, women and children. A protest took place at HMP Forest Bank in Salford, which is operated by UKDS (the same private profit making company that operates Harmondsworth Removal Centre).

This was in response to the death of a Ukrainian refugee at Harmondsworth Removal Centre who was found hanged on Monday 19th July. There followed a significant disturbance at Harmondsworth which closed the centre. Detainees were transferred to other Removal Centres and to main-stream prisons. Days later on Friday 23rd July, a Vietnamese man who had been moved from Harmondsworth to Dungavel Removal Centre hung himself - he was taken to Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride, where he later died.

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