Yarl’s Wood Women ‘Locked Up And Denied Treatment’
Posted on February 9, 2010
Staff at the Yarl’s Wood migrant concentration camp are beating hunger-striking women and denying them drinking water and access to toilets and sanitation facilities. Some detainees have been locked outside, including one woman with a serious injury who has not received medical treatment, and others are locked up in the ‘punishment’ wing. Their jailers have threatened them, reportedly calling them ‘black monkeys’, telling them they ‘would regret what they have done‘.
Home Office and UKBA officials with their imperialist world view of ‘blacks’ as brute savages and ‘monkeys’, strive for a passive and submissive detainee population to facilitate the efficient processing of inmates away from this country, where, as in any proper Greek tragedy, they can be quietly tortured and murdered off stage.
The Home Office claims everything is in order and while it denies mistreatment of the women, careful reading of the statement confirms the women are being ‘punished’ for protesting against the injustices to which they are subject.
Write to Phil Woolas MP, the Minister of State for Borders and Immigration (woolasp@parliament.uk or http://www.philwoolasmp.org/emailPhil.html) and the UKBA (UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk) to protest against the women’s brutal and dehumanising treatment.
The Guardian and Black Women’s Rape Action Project
