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Protesters demand Brook House is shut down as migrants waiting deportation
Campaigners outside Home Office in London, protesting against the conditions inside Brook House immigration removal centre, where they claim migrants who crossed the Channel are on hunger strike ahead of being deported next week
WHILE detainees remain on hunger strike, dozens of anti-detention campaigners held a protest outside the Home Office in London today calling for its Brook House facility to be shut down.
The immigration removal centre (IRC) near Gatwick airport is notorious for its inhumane conditions.
A group of asylum-seekers from Yemen, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq who are being held there face deportation on August 26 and 27. At least five of them are thought to be on hunger strike in protest against their planned removals.
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