Chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers, describes Harmondsworth Detention Centre as having slipped into a "a culture wholly at odds with its stated purpose" --

The problem with Harmondsworth and other Immigration Removal Centres is not any shortcomings with respect to their stated purpose, but that they exist in the first place. They reflect the inhumane system of migration controls that lock up refugees and migrants just because they try to make a life here.

Wednesday's revolt by Harmondsworth detainees shows that people, regardless of their desperate situation, will always struggle for their human dignity. A human dignity denied by a system which makes people illegal so as to control them and keep us all in a state of fear.

Kalyx is a private company profiting from the public panic. Its part of the Sodhexo “Empire” which makes money out of exploiting people and disposing of them; these are the ultimate traffickers in human misery.

We are in solidarity with all migrants and refugees and their desire for freedom. We hold Kalyx and the Home Office responsible for the sufferings of the detainees and demand that they are brought to account.

No Borders is calling for a protest outside the headquarters of Kalyx on Edgware Road this Friday, 1st December 2006 from 3.30pm to 5.30pm. 25 Chapel Street NW1, Nearest tube Edgware Rd.

NO BORDERS CALLS FOR THE *CLOSURE OF ALL IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRES* .
NO BORDERS DETAINEE SUPPORT GROUP *PROVIDES PRACTICAL SUPPORT TO REFUGEES
AND MIGRANTS IN DETENTION AND/OR THOSE THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION,* AND WORKS TO EMPOWER
THEIR STRUGGLES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE DETENTION CENTRES.