Misdirection & Disinterest

The hunger strike by over a hundred women at Yarl’s Wood is not being covered, only the Guardian, Indymedia and Socialist Worker have reported on it. Meanwhile in true demagogue stylee NuLabour are whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment with a misdirection on council house allocation covered well at Lenin’s Tomb. So on a day when the country should be convulsed with shame over the concentration camps for detaining innocent people in awful prison conditions in out midst we are instead falling for a preplanned debate that further legitimises the BNP. Here is the press release that the MSM are studiously ignoring:-

As evidence is revealed of vulnerable detainees being imprisoned in overcrowded and flooded cells while fires burned, Liberty called on the Home Office to act. They requested the Home Secretary, John Reid, to order a public inquiry into the serious disturbance that took place at Harmondsworth detention centre in west London last November and into the treatment that led detainees to desperate measures.

Liberty Legal Officer, Alex Gask said: ‘It is clear that abuses at Harmondsworth detention centre sparked the disorder in November, abuses which escalated during the disturbance itself. These men deserve a public inquiry into the ill-treatment they faced; anything less could result in legal action.’

Should the Home Secretary refuse, Liberty intends to seek a judicial review of his decision on behalf of seven detainees it is representing – an unprecedented move that would see Britain’s immigration system placed under scrutiny in the courts.

Liberty believes that hunger strikes, destructive behaviour and self-harm are now endemic in Britain’s biggest detention centres as detainees become increasingly desperate about living in what they claim are deteriorating conditions. The November disturbance at Harmondsworth was the second such incident in less than 2 ½ years. At Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire, more than 100 women are refusing to eat, and there have been recent reports of major disturbances at Lindholme, South Yorkshire, and at Colnbrook in Middlesex.