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Liberty wins permisson to seek public inquiry in Harmondsworth conditions

noborders/ repost | 05.03.2008 11:46 | No Border Camp 2007 | Anti-racism | Migration

Liberty has won permission to seek a public inquiry over the "shameful" conditions it says foreign nationals were held in at a west London immigration detention centre.
The human rights pressure group contends that vulnerable detainees were left in overcrowded, flooded cells without food or water while fires burned during a riot at Harmondsworth in November 2006.


Liberty wins round one of detention centre inquiry
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Bexhill Observer, Tuesday 4th March 2008
 http://www.bexhillobserver.net/latest-london-news/Liberty-wins-round-one-of.3841261.jp

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05.03.2008 14:14

Excellent result, but it's only the beginning. This just gives Liberty permission to apply to the courts, to ask the courts to order a public inquiry. The courts might or might not agree, so to make sure there's a public inquiry, more political pressure needs to be asserted. Liberty asked (in its Autumn 2007 magazine) for people to write to their MPs ands ask them to support a public inquiry into Harmondsworth. It's not too late to do that. If you don't know who your MP is, you can find out at www.parliament.uk or at www.writetothem.com. This second website also enables you to email your MP direct.
The way detained asylum seekers get treated is an outrage, but so far it's a hidden outrage. It needs to be brought to light and this is one good way of doing that.
There's an article with more about Harmondsworth on www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news-and-events/

Annie Citizen
- Homepage: http://www.rightsandwrongsuk.blogspot.com