EVENT INFORMATION

20
February
2010

Grassroots groups hold solidarity protests for Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers

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📅 20 February 2010 📍 United Kingdom

Migrant solidarity groups organized vigils and public actions in response to the hunger strike and reports of reprisals against detainees. By relaying women’s demands beyond the centre’s walls, supporters contested the isolation built into immigration detention and amplified detainees’ own political agency.

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People in this event

Detained women

migrant solidarity campaigners

Organizations in this Event

UK Indymedia

Right to Remain

Black Women’s Rape Action Project