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Activists to fast in solidarity with Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on International Women's Day

ACTIVISTS across Britain will take part in a 24-hour fast on International Women’s Day this week in solidarity with Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers.

Migrants’ rights campaigners have united with the friends of those in the detention centre to call the Freedom Fast for Thursday. They are urging “all people of conscience" to join.

Over 100 Yarl's Wood inmates have been on hunger strike since February 21 against the “inhumane” conditions at the centre and the government's practice of indefinite detention. But the Home Office has refused to acknowledge their demands.

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