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Campaigners targeted the Labour Party conference yesterday to demand the closure of the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre.
The Bedfordshire site holds asylum-seekers and other immigrants prior to their enforced deportation — it has been the scene of suicides, sexual exploitation, hunger strikes and riots.
Its victims include Manuel Bravo, an asylum seeker from Angola living in Leeds. He was detained there with his 13-year-old son. Manuel hanged himself knowing that his death would prevent the deportation of his son because he was under 18 and could not be deported without an adult relative.
Activists from Women Asylum Seekers Together, Manchester Migrant Solidarity and Safety4SistersNW rallied outside the conference centre calling for the facility, run by disgraced privateer Serco, to be closed.
Bedfordshire Labour MEP Richard Howitt and Kate Green MP met lobbyists.
