Colnbrook

they can not take care of people

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The staff here in the centre, they can not take care of people. They give us rice and chicken several times every day. The food makes you ill. And it takes 2 months before you can get an appointment even with the health unit, even if you feel really ill. It is just ridiculous. And when you get to see a doctor, they do nothing. They just give you painkillers for everything, even if you had cancer. They do not treat you as people but like animals. A few days ago I was really ill. So my roomate called the ambulance. I was lying on the floor, almost dead. But the people who run the centre told the ambulance to leave again and told them I am ok. They did not help me at all. If anyone would see what is going on in the centre, they would see that they do not treat us as humans.

I have a charter flight tomorrow. Even though I have a partner in this country who is British but they just say that I am lying, even though my partner came to testify in court. They gave me a ticket to the charter flight, even though they should not give removal directions to anyone who has a pending application. I tried to send my letter to Croydon but the detention centre hid it and prevented it from going out to Croydon so they never received it. So then my partner printed it out and sent it to them and they finally received it but much too late. They hide all my post and I cannot send out any post. I just spoke to Croydon and they finally received my post and sent a letter to the home office to update my information. If I could receive and send post, I would be able to help my case but the
centre opens my post and hides it from me and they only give me some of the papers I should receive. The same happens to most of the people here. The centre does not waste any time to give people their post on time even though that is really important. I got my judicial review in, so hopefully I should not have to get on that charter flight and be removed, however I am not sure what is happening.

I have been in detention for one year. I never committed any crime I just overstayed my visa. My partner is also ill and she is suffering from severe physical and mental illnesses and I can not help her much while I am in here.
My partner came this week to see me because she knows about my removal orders and never knows if I will be removed or not.

I have high blood pressure

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I have been here for two months now. I have high blood pressure and I have my test results. I said I need my medication that I take outside.They know my blood pressure and then they took me and put me in Colnbrook and locked me up! They just locked me inside. It’s just like prison, its prison man. They locked me up, my life is off, they locked me up. I’m on my on in here. I went on Monday to make a complaint and now they take me here [from Harmondsworth]. Because of depression I started smoking. They dismiss my case. I didn’t apply for bail because I’m fed up. I don’t know why I’m here. I told them that I was sick and they put me in Colnbrook. They don’t want to attend to me. I’m banging on the door and they aren’t doing anything for me, they’re not medical. Everything is off – TV is off.

They are scared that the other detainees [on strike] will provoke us.

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I am detained in Colnbrook. I have been here 3 months. I’m an educated person. I’m detained here unlawfully. We had a peaceful protest- and we made our point. And we are waiting for a reasonable answer. Because you know, we have a really shameful condition. A lot of people are in this condition and we are detained here unlawfully.

We have a slogan: Persecution is less than the mental abuse that influences completely the health state of each detainee here, however everyone believes we can continually overcome the situation by our peaceful protest and address the message to everybody responsible about this unfavourable position.

We made a letter and the point of grievance, and everyone signed this letter. We sent it to European Court. We sent it to every organisation where we could have a reasonable answer. The European court have answered- they advised us to open- for each of the signatories- to apply to the court on their own behalf.

We want to make it peaceful. We want to challenge this unlawful detention.

We are willing to make hunger strike from Monday in Colnbrook- and everybody is going to share with us this protest. There are more than 400 of us.

The relationship between Home Office and the detainee is like the slave master and the slave- this is the problem. And also the case workers lie about individual cases, and doctor cases to make them suitable for deportation- this is the problem.

These people- they don’t understand. They are not detained here so they don’t understand the situation.

Already we made a point of grievance and we solicit a reasonable answer from the Home Office, and we are waiting for a reasonable.

It is worse than prison…it’s worse than prison.

You know today- the manager they lock up the door to the yard. They are scared that the other detainees will provoke us. They are not complying- it is our right to have fresh air from 9 o’clock to 4 o’clock.

They are provoking us. Everybody is suffering here because of unreasonable time of detention- because nobody knows when they are releasing us. There have been several reports of the impact on mental health of detention.

I’m suffering from depression.

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I’m suffering from depression; I’m worried about my daughter’s birthday coming on 20 March. They are messing me about today- took me to bail hearing without giving me any date or informing my sureties. They are not listening to us- we want them to remove fast-track. Next to Harmondsworth that called Colnbrook and here peoples are suffering from mental health and I hear one guy tried to suicide- today about six o’clock.