I am the partner of someone who is detained at Harmondsworth detention centre near heathrow airport in London. he was detained and took to a police station in Feb 2015 and was remained there for 90 hours in the police cells and then he was taken to Harmondsworth detention centre. My partner is an Asylum seeker and currently awaiting on his case to be decided. Now when I first got to the detention centre he was given a solicitor to contact however that solicitor said they are the wrong people to help him in his case. He has also been suffering from depression and has had anxiety attacks which detention centre has made his health worse. He hasn’t slept or eaten. I have visited him 3 times now and the conditions I have whitnessed is horrific. A member of staff at the detention centre had told me their self that the centre is going to ‘collapse’ and they said they are running shortage of staff. When I visited him I wasn’t allowed to sit next to him it had be either next to him or across from him and I am his girlfriend. We only get 2pm until 8:45 with detainees and it’s hard because he is based in London and I am near Liverpool, it’s not only emotionally effecting him but it’s effecting me, I haven’t eaten,slept or even attended my college. I am suffering from depression and it’s gradually deteriorating. It’s horrible knowing I can’t do anything to help him but contact the social media and get involved in protests and just to visit him to keep that smile. They get treated like animals I have witnessed it myself. They are human beings not seminars and we deserve to be treated with dignity and with respect regardless what the skin colour is,religion or culture. The immigration system is racist and vile and this needs to be ended once and for all. Thank you for listening.

I am a detainee of Harmondsworth, we are all doing protest against Fast trak and against everything. There are more than 100 people in the yard and they have started hunger strike for 4 days. Immigration came about an hour ago and said if they don’t stop there are commanders outside we will make you stop this hunger strike. We don’t like the way you have started hunger strike and that media are seeing. We don’t want this no more.

I am calling from Harmondsworth. We have not eaten for four days now. And three people have collapsed from not eating or drinking. There are no human rights- no media is coming inside. We need the media to come us- we need them to come in and see what is happening inside. I am calling on behalf of people from Morocco, Benghazi, Pakistan, Egypt- lots of countries. India. We have three people from Libya here. We have been arrested here for around five months- we are not criminals. End fast-track. They haven’t given us any solicitor- anything to fight our case. Everything is being refused. Anything is being refused by the Home Office. Everyone has a dangerous life- no solicitor; how do I fight my case from within detention? I don’t know about the law; I don’t know anything. They just keep me here, and I get a refusal, and they send me back. The judge makes a judgement without a solicitor- how do I fight my case? And they keep us here for five months. And they don’t see about our cases. My first language is Arabic- so my evidence will be in Arabic. How will the judge read it? No translator- nothing; they just make a refusal. How can you refuse something if you haven’t read it?  All we need- I am talking on behalf of everyone- we need to end fast-track for everybody. We need the Home Office to read our cases properly- they don’t take time. If we give interview today, they refuse tomorrow. It doesn’t matter where you are from- they refuse you. It’s like they just make copies for everyone.

I am in Harmondsworth. They put me on a fast-track- they didn’t give me time. We’re not allowed to go outside so I could not prove myself. They didn’t give me a doctor’s appointment before the flight. Doctors have no time. After I left my house…you know some people in Pakistan are trying to find me. They want to kill me. They know what time the charter is coming back…they will wait and find me. This is very big trouble for me. My weight was 90 kg, now I weigh 65 kg- they have this on record. I was very very depressed. I’m slowly slowly dying here. It is better to not go back to my country. It is better to die here. I can’t sleep more than one hour, two hours. I don’t wanna go back. I’m here more than 5 months…if they put me here for another month I’m gunna commit suicide. Already I’m very in trouble- mentally. I’m not in a good condition. I don’t wanna stay inside here. My solicitor says “I try, I try, I try”. Nobody is listening to me. What can I do? Some people are still on hunger strike- they don’t eat. Every night they hit their doors- they make noise. The guards just listen and that’s it- they listen to immigration. They don’t listen to us. Thank you for listening to me.