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BACK IN HARMS WAY

Last Friday a jury at Southwark Crown Court acquitted four men of conspiracy to commit violent disorder during a riot in Harmondsworth asylum seeker detention centre in November 2006 (See SchNEWS 571).

Despite getting off, the four – all asylum seekers – are back in Harmondsworth for their other ‘crime’: fleeing war or persecution in their homeland and seeking refuge in Britain. To celebrate the acquittal, activists from the Support The Harmondsworth 4 Campaign held a demo at the London headquarters of Sodhexho, who through their subsidiary Kalyx, run the privatised centre. At the end of the trial the judge commented that 'one might feel sympathy’ for those people detained in immigration detention centres.

* For more see www.ncadc.org.uk or email harmondsworth4@riseup.net

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