Following a call-out by Birmingham NoBorders earlier this week, some 20 people, including a few asylum seekers, demonstrated yesterday (28 April, 2006) at the West Midlands Immigration Centre in Solihull. The demonstration was in solidarity with the ongoing hunger strikes in various detention centres and to protest against the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers that this place embodies, from asylum seekers’ having to "sign on" every week to "snatch squads" and "dawn raids".
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Food Not Bombs stall
reading out the hunger strike update via a loud mega phone
and making some noise
asylum seekers coming in and out to sign on
a shot of the inside through the shutters..
after which all shutters and windows were closed
the Assistant Director of Sandford House coming out to "talk to us"
cops asking what "this's all about"
some stickers to remeber us by
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