[IMC-UK-Features] Correction, Re: feature proposal: Hunger Strike in Campsfield as deportee takes his own life in Iraq

Shiar shiar at riseup.net
Wed Aug 13 06:48:48 PDT 2008


Sorry abstract should read as follows:

<p>
Some 50 refugees held at Campsfield immigration prison, near Oxford, are
<a href="/en/2008/08/406602.html">on hunger strike</a> in protest at their
continued detention. The hunger strike was started on August 9th by 13
Iraqi-Kurdish detainees, who demanded that forcible deportations to
Northern Iraq are stopped. This is the second such protest at Campsfield
this year and one of many throughout the UK detention estate.
</p><p>
Meanwhile, and Iraqi-Kurdish refugee has <a
href="/en/2008/08/406616.html">taken his own life</a> after being forcibly
returned to Iraqi Kurdistan. Hussein Ali shot himself in his home in
Sulaimania on August 10th, two days after he was deported to Erbil via
Jordan. An <a href="/en/2008/08/406602.html">emergency demonstration</a>
in support of the hunger strikers, called by the <a
href="http://www.closecampsfield.org.uk">Campaign to Close Campsfield</a>,
was held outside the immigration prison on August 12th.
</p><p>


-- 
Shiar





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