The Zohan

Mrs Pankhurst wouls be spinning in her grave!


taken from below;B]A UK Border Agency spokesman said that although the detainees are refusing to eat prepared meals they do have access to snacks.[/B]

Access to snacks - LMFAO - sound like preperation for living on a chav estate to me!

shame they will never get to do so as they will be deported - about time anyone caught causing trouble in such establishments was returned without question or delay!


Hunger strike at immigration centre - Yahoo! News UK
Around 60 detainees at an immigration detention centre have gone on hunger strike, an inmate said.


The strike was started three days ago by a group of 13 Iraqi Kurd asylum seekers in protest at being held at the Campsfield House site near Kidlington, Oxfordshire.

The detainees began refusing meals at 5pm on Saturday and have since been joined by around 50 others of different nationalities. The Iraqi Kurds started their protest after claiming a former detainee from another centre committed suicide after being deported back to his former homeland last week.

One of the strikers Fazzel Abdul, who has been in Britain for seven years, said they are calling on the authorities to release them from Campsfield House and stop the policy of forced deportation.

He said: "Without any reason we are being held here and they are trying to deport us to the most dangerous country in the world.

"We want people to listen to us. We are refusing all food and water and we will keep going.

"It is better to be dead than to return to Iraq."

A UK Border Agency spokesman said that although the detainees are refusing to eat prepared meals they do have access to snacks.

He added: "A small number of detainees at Campsfield have refused their meals in recent days. The situation is under control and the matter is under review.

"But we have got our priorities straight. In 2007 we deported the highest ever number of foreign lawbreakers, up by a huge 80% and we are committed to removing those who have no legal basis to stay in the UK."

dpb

Well my gfriends housemate was not put on the plane because she was declared too weak to travel after 45 days hunger strike as a protest to being deported ( she paid for a Malawian passport to escape persecution in Zim)


I really suspect youve no notion as to just how lucky you are to be born in this part of the world Paul

The Zohan

My post is light-hearted more 'trench humour' hence the reference to Emily Pankhurst

I do not agree with people in the centres causing trouble and more problems and do I believe we have a fair system and for people to be deported with good reason if not what is the alternative. There is not one.

As for lucky - i have seen other parts of the world having lived in some of them and certainly traveled about a fair bit. Yes, i am lucky to have been born here.

Coffin Dodger

Oh well, their choice, what can we do about it

harry flatters

How many European borders have they crossed to make it to the UK?

I would imagine your g/f's flatmate either flew direct (or via Holland/France), whereas the Iraqi's travelled overland through half a dozen EU countries to make it here, so that's not the same thing.

The Zohan

Chances are they will be entitled to a free plane ride back!

OK, harsh and in jest.

mrtheedge2u2

well if they are refusing water..... in 3 days the problem will be over

spireite

Bit of luck they'll all go the way of Bobby Sands

s70rjw

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I still have his number if anyone wants to check...Nuneaton eight nothing, eight nothing eight nothing


The old ones are the old ones

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Force feed them a lead pellet, problem solved.

what would scooby do

Iraq Bedford