The women of Yarl's Wood Movement for Justice group have led the way for a national
movement, in detention and outside, to end detention once and for all. Each woman's
story makes clear the injustice at the heart of the immigration system. The hypocrisy
of the British government is laid bare: a government that says it is committed to
human rights, that promises not to send lesbians and gay men back to their deaths,
that says it puts the family at the heart of its agenda. This government at the
same time uses 'Fast Track' and detention to deny the most basic right to a fair
hearing - cutting people off from family and friends and denying access to the Internet
to gather evidence. It locks up indefinitely people who have committed no crime,
locks up the sick, injured, traumatised, mentally ill, disabled, elderly and pregnant,
rips mothers and fathers from their children, sisters from their brothers and tears
families apart. This contradiction must be exposed and the truth about detention
must be told; by building a movement nationally combining actions inside detention
and out we can create the conditions to win. The women of Yarl's Wood must be freed,
all detainees must be freed.
Come to the demonstration on Wednesday 17th October, sign up your group, union,
student society to come - we will be demonstrating at the heart of the UKBA in London
and need everyone to turn out.
