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Activists from Climate Camp Scotland and Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment in action in Aberdeen today
CLIMATE and migrant rights activists held a rally against hotel detention of asylum-seekers in Aberdeen yesterday, highlighting the connection between the climate crisis and forced displacement.
About 50 activists from Climate Camp Scotland, a new group campaigning against expansion of the oil and gas industry north of the border, attended the protest with members of the Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment (More).
The rally was held in the Castlegate area of the city, where the groups said that 100 asylum-seekers were being held in hotel accommodation without access to education and little or no financial support.
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