From Athens
to Harmondsworth,
solidarity with the hunger strikers and all prisoners in revolt.
Prisons are the state's
last resort before execution, though a number of state's have
abolished official state murders, (executions), but prisons remain
and become more brutal in there surveillance and isolation
techniques. Degrade, humiliate, harass and repress, all strategies to
control that are common in prisons across the world. The
state will introduce whatever legislation it pleases to make
something a “custodial” offence. In the case of many migrants,
there has been no offence, no sentence, no defined term, just the
indefinite custodial act, at the whim of the state apparatus. What is more
repugnant, is the fact that lots of these hell-holes
are run by private companies on a strictly for profit basis. The
detainees are secondary
to the
profit, it is to the companies benefit to hold as many as possible,
for as long as possible, for as cheaply as possible. A sure recipe
for abuse and deteriorating conditions. As always, as conditions
deteriorate, so the anger grows, and rightly so. However those
unfortunate enough to be caught up the the state's repressive
prison/detention Gulags, should not have to fight their battles alone
from the inside. Their conditions, and justice, demand our solidarity.
Without that solidarity the state will brutally crush any internal
protests, all hidden from the public gaze, all behind high stone
walls. An abundance of repression and brutality goes on on a daily basis behind those high stone walls. We can't be deaf and blind to their call for help.
Full article and photos HERE:Tuesday evening 10 March. Rebellion is spreading across the UK’s “gulag archipelago” of migration prisons.Hunger strikes and yard occupations and other protests are now taking place in at least 6 UK detention centres. The protests started last week in Yarl’s Wood (Bedfordshire) and in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook migration prison complex near Heathrow airport. (See previous reports here and here.)Today we heard that 50 people were on hunger strike in Tinsley House, with protests also at nearby Brook House, both inside the perimeter of Gatwick Airport. Hunger strike has also started at Moreton Hall (Nottinghamshire). There may well be others.In Harmondsworth, some prisoners have now been on hunger strike for a week (picture above from yesterday). See this video featuring interviews by phone with some of the people detained there. Also see the Detained Voices website which is receiving and spreading words from friends on the inside.Today there were due to be three mass deportation flights of prisoners from UK detention centres to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Albania. In particular, it is known that a number of people deported to Afghanistan recently, particularly from ethnic minorities, have been killed or imprisoned and tortured by state and para-state forces upon arrival in the country.
