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Noise Demo, Saturday 31st January | ||||||
European Day of Action against Refugee Detention and for Migrant Rights!Saturday 31st January 2004 | ||||||
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Meet 12 Noon @ Tyrham Hall Hotel, South Yorkshire A614 South of Hatfield Woodhouse | ||||||
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Lindholme Refugee Detention Centre | ||||||
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Saturday 31st January is a Europe Wide Day of Action against Refugee Detention and for Migrant Rights. There will be actions at Refugee Detention Centres throughout Britain. As part of this day there will be a noise demo outside Lindholme Refugee Detention Centre. | |||||||||
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Why A Noise Demo? | |||||||||
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The government's "detention estate" is a horrible human rights abuse. People are imprisoned without charge, time limit or trial, with no proper reason given. It is part of a climate of racism and persecution of "immigrants" that is making human beings "illegal". Detention is used to try and intimidate migrants into accepting deportation and to put people off coming to Britain at all. By taking our protests to the gates of detention centres we can communicate with the people inside, sending messages of support that can break through the fences erected to keep people isolated. | |||||||||
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Why Lindholme? | |||||||||
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Lindholme Detention Centre is a wing of HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, run by the prison service. It holds up to 112 men aged 21 and over. A prison inspectors' report in April 2003 revealed that staff routinely imposed random strip-searches after visits. Detainees are also strip-searched on admission to the detention centre as a matter of routine, without any reason given. Staff at this former prison treat detainees as offenders, rather than recognising that they have not been convicted of any crime. There is a prison atmosphere with detainees being made to wear prison clothes. Thier own money is withheld from them and channelled into prison-like 'incentive schemes'. The report describes poor food, heating and healthcare, and intimidation and hostility. Detainees there do not feel safe | |||||||||
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Bring what you'd like to find: Musical Instruments, Loud Hailers, Voices, Saucepans, Things to make a Noise with; Wool, Balloons, Coloured Paper, Banners Things to Decorate the fence with.
Needed: Help with Transport.
For more details, offers of transport, or if you need transport, please phone `The Sumac Centre' 0845 458 9595 or
Email: lindholme(at)veggies.org.uk | |||||||||
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Directions: M18 Eastbound Junction 5, M180 Eastbound Junction 1, A18 towards Hatfield, Take the A614 on the left towards Hatfield Woodhouse. Tyrham Hall Hotel is on lefthand side after Hatfield Woodhouse. | |||||||||
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