Voices from inside UK immigration detention
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New post: I am writing to share a direct and unprecedented testimony from a night of pain, dignity, and unity experienced by asylum seekers detained at Harmondsworth and Brook House Immigration Removal Centres on 14–15 January 2026. detainedvoices.com/2026/01/1…
This testimony details what happened that night, including the arrival of special forces, and forcible removal of detainees with tickets to France. It's a firsthand account from victims themselves, intended to raise awareness and inform human rights organizations and the public.
NEW POST: I need help to make my voice heard, to help release me. I am so miserable and unhappy, I can’t believe it.
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No one takes my case seriously. They just put me here. I don’t know what is going to happen in the future. I have no clue. It makes me sad. I only have 70p allowance a day. I don’t know if I should buy food or buy credit to call my family.
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I have no hope for life.
I need help to make my voice heard, to help release me. I am so miserable and unhappy, I can’t believe it.
detainedvoices.com/2023/11/0…
New Post from Yarl's Wood: "I feel good for the people who were able to escape. They are free now. God bless them – I wish they never caught them. Because to be an immigrant is not a crime... We are with blood and with heart, we are the same as them. "detainedvoices.com/2023/04/2…
"There’s no water, nobody can go to the toilet – people are basically going to the toilet in the bin."
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"I’m afraid to go behind the door at 9. If the buzzer’s not working they shouldn’t be keeping people in their rooms for 12 hours."
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"We’ve been given two bottles of water to wash your face and have a drink, but there’s no running water, nothing."
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NEW POST: "There's not even candlelight here"
[A statement from Harmondsworth IRC, where there has been no electricity or running water since midnight]
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[New statement]
"And there’s nothing to sanitise with. We couldn’t have any visitors up till a few days ago, but then we all mix here. Then they do lockdowns – we had a 15-day lockdown last time, with no internet, stuck in the wings, the corridors."
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Protests at refugee hotel in Reading. see here for details: m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…
"Once the police took us to Lille to keep us away from the Jungle, and left us in the street; they even took our tents and food in Dunkirk. They were treating us as if we were an epidemic that they needed to get rid of." detainedvoices.com/2020/09/1…
New Statement: My dream is to put my head on my pillow to sleep without thinking that tomorrow I might be forced on the streets ow.ly/pjld50BvAyz
New statement (from someone due to be deported to Spain on 17.09.20): I am still scared because I don't know what is going to happen next
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[New Statement by 1 of 3 Yemeni brothers due to be forcibly removed on a Charter flight to Spain tomorrow]
detainedvoices.com/2020/09/1…
I went back to my room, but heard their shouts from my room. The shouts of the detainees, and the shouts of the police. I was terrified. I felt like I was hearing executions and waiting for my own. I saw them being dragged away, handcuffed.