Set her free
Chris Gwyntopher was part of a group of Quakers who took part in a recent demonstration to close the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
It was a warm sunny day with, as one speaker said, the winds of change preventing it becoming stifling. The women inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford normally find their confinement there, indefinitely and with little judicial oversight, just stifling. Many are victims of sexual oppression, rape or torture. Depression and even suicide is common amongst women detained.
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