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.
Author: DV
if they don’t stop there are commanders outside
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 one of the detainees protesting this week
I am one of the detainees protesting this week. I’m depressed and traumatised. For this we want to start the hunger strike. It’s just for them to know that the treatment is not good. Most of us here are not criminals, we have not done anything to deserve this unjust treatment. Treating us like we are animals. There’s no reason why we are detained. They say I’m an over-stayer and I’m not an overstayer. I sent my application for review but they took me here. They didn’t allow me to finish my course, they closed the college. They said I needed to do a fresh application and said I needed to leave in 22 days rather than 2 years. The colleges are not truthful to us.
Still around 30 people are on hunger strike at tinsley house
Still around 30 people are on hunger strike at tinsley house for the third day. It’s quite a small centre. Officer are coming into our room and saying why are you on strike, it’s not going to work. They laugh saying it’s not going to work – the Home office don’t care about it. It will be a burden on you. We tell them before, if it doesn’t work it doesn’t matter, we are on strike. Personally, I’m strike because I got a flight very soon. My case is pending in the home office but they don’t care they say they will take me to the airport and tell me the decision there. My hunger strike is for that – I’ve been here more than 8 months and they’ve given a ticket.
3 people have fallen down
3 people have fallen down in C and D wing due to not eating and have been taken to healthcare in Harmondsworth.
I have been here for 5 months
I have been here for 5 months. My baby’s 6 months and my room mate’s wife is 9 months pregnant. They are trying to break our families. When there’s fast track, there’s no justice. My wife has mental health problems. There’s no one to look after my child.
I just wanted to say
I just wanted to say that I am here since late 2014 and I have a father in this country and he is british, I wanted to be with him, he want me to be with him as well and I am just 18 years old thats it.
We the undersigned
50 people are not eating food
50 people are not eating food in Tinsley House. Everyone is outside in the garden talking and discussing. The problem is that people have been in detention for more than 8 months. They have applied for asylum, put on fast track. In detention, no one can defend their case. They are not giving medication, there are health issues – they are not treating them properly.
I’ve been asking for treatment.
I am in detention and I am a mental health patient and they arrested me and put me here. I’ve been asking for treatment. I’m not eating for 7 days because I want to a mental health treatment. I tried to commit suicide the day before yesterday. They put me the cell. I have been tortured in the past. At night they came and spoke to me and put me in an observation room – locked room, light on and can’t sleep.I started hitting my head against the door and it was so powerful. Nothing happened after, they refuse any medical treatment and put me in the cell. I remember them verbally abusing me. I don’t remember why I was beating my head but if you put me in this situation I will start to beat my head.
detained voices 