The people detained live in fear. Detention makes it difficult to stay in contact with friends, family and to get a solicitor. Many are not able to find a solicitor before they are arbitrarily deported to the country they have fled from - to face whatever persecution forced them to come here in the first place.

Amnesty International has published ‘Getting it Right’ criticising the way asylum applications are handled.
The drive is to reach targets of people to be deported, not to give people a fair hearing.

PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO RETURN TO COUNTRIES LIKE AFGHANISTAN, DRC, SUDAN, IRAQ ETC.
The government does not monitor what happens to people after deportation. NGOs and human rights activists have reported numerous cases of people imprisoned, tortured & killed after being deported..

Home Office figures reveal that there are 2,250 people in detention. 25.000 in total were detained last year, around 15.000 were deported. More people were deported in the first quarter 2006 than ever before: Despite the fact that asylum applications are all together decreasing. In the ten months between April 2005 to January 31st 2006. 185 persons attempted self-harm & 1,467 persons were considered to be a danger to themselves and put on self-harm watch. These are Home Office numbers, but the real total may be higher…
Oleksiy Baronovsky - died from self- harm in GSL managed HMP Rye Hill: Oleksiy had made several attempts on his life, and was/should have been on suicide watch. He had finished his sentence and was being held under immigration act powers, pending deportation. His death has gone unreported! And undemonstrated!This suicide brings to 13 the number of immigration detainees who have taken their own lives.
ABOUT TINSLEY HOUSE
Tinsley House holds 135 people at any one time. In 2001, it became the first centre to hold families. Tinsley House is run by a private company called Global Solutions Limited (GSL) with little external monitoring of the conditions. GSL: maker profits from detaining people. GSL operates migrant detention centres in Australia and prisons in South Africa. In Britain operate Yarls Wood & Oakington.. Many incidents of violence and abuse by GSL employers against detainees are documented.
There are plans to open a bigger detention centre near Gatwick, to replace the one in Oakington that is due to close. Than there will be 4 detention centres in the London area: Harmondsworth and Colnbrook near Heathrow, Tinsley House and the new detention near Gatwick, thus turning the place in a gulag of concentration camps. Over 100 detainees have recently been on a hunger strike in Colnbrook, 120 went on a hunger strike in Campsfield on June 14th.
WHY JOIN THE DEMONSTRATION
I was in detention in Yarl's Wood for six months…..The traumas I am going through as a result of detention; I don't know if I will ever overcome them and do not wish anyone to go through it. It's a story, an experience I live to tell. I get nightmares, I don't sleep well, lose my memory, break out into tears daily, get suicide plans as a solution (never was before) can't socialize, have lost my self esteem, become moody at times when I shouldn't, feel hatred for immigration officers and many more symptoms.
Salima Sekindi ex detainee

Demonstrate Saturday 24th June 2006
From 11.30 am
Tinsley House IRC
Perimeter Road
Gatwick Airport
RH6 0PQ
Tel 07817 320 584
LONDON AGAINST DETENTION
 lad@riseup.net
a coach has been organised, phone and book your seat!