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  1. @JackTheCat a similar tactic used by repressive regimes all over. Anyone been to #Manston recently, hint, it's where #HMG 'hold' ours.

  2. ⚖️ Mind. 250 Personen, die während einer Zeit im Asylzentrum #Manston festgehalten wurden, als es gefährlich überfüllt war und mit Ausbrüchen von Infektionskrankheiten zu kämpfen hatte, verklagen die Regierung wegen unrechtmäßiger Inhaftierung und Verletzungen weiterer ihrer Rechte.

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  3. 🇬🇧 Schockierende Berichte von Menschen, die 2022 im Asylzentrum #Manston festgehalten wurden, darunter eine Frau, die schwanger war und keinen Zugang zu medizinischer Versorgung hatte. Sie erlitt später eine Fehlgeburt. Einem Mann wurde 33 Tage lang eine Dusche oder saubere Kleidung verweigert.

    #AllCampsAreBad

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    theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

  4. Breaking - The final obstacle to the planned reopening of #Manston Airport - Kent as a cargo hub has been swept away by Lords Justice Lewis and Warby

    RiverOak Strategic Partners (RSP) bought it for £16.5m in 2019 making the Ann Gloag (Stagecoach founder ) nominal £1 (yes one pound) initial purchase in 2013 appear a bit cheap.

    Can't help feeling "we wus robbed"

    The fire drill foam carpet was a wonder back in the day. Much the same as the usual taxpayer robbery coverup.

  5. "Initially, small boat arrivals were sleeping on gym mats in the Manston marquees, but the Home Office decided they were a fire risk and removed them, leaving people to sleep on the cold floor with just blankets to lie on. While people were supposed to be held in Manston for just 24 hours, many were unlawfully detained there for longer, the longest known case being 43 days"

    I keep saying this. The cruelty is the point.

    #Manston #AsylumSeekers #HomeOffice #UKPolitics
    theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o

  6. CW: UK Pol Tory Policies in Action

    ‘You walked in and your heart sank’: the shocking inside story of #Manston detention centre

    Last year, the short-term facility in Kent ballooned into a vast, unsafe camp holding thousands of people, including children. How did our #asylum system get so broken – and what does it reveal about #Rishi #Sunak's promise to stop the small boats
    - theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m #ToryPolicyInAction

  7. CW: References to self harm and abuse of, including violence against, asylum seekers in Manston Migrant Processing Centre
  8. OPINION: At #Manston detention centre, border violence and outsourcing collide. #Unions must challenge both.

    Dozens of the people who work as security at the #immigration detention centre also sleep in the back of vans outside. They are predominantly from east #Africa, west and south Asia and #Albania – the same regions that most of the detained asylum seekers came from.

    opendemocracy.net/en/manston-i

    #UKNews #UK

  9. CW: Manston, government were warned about infection risk
  10. An asylum seeker who died after staying at the #Manston processing centre in Kent did have diphtheria, the Home Office has confirmed.

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  11. He didn't "stay there" Sky News, he was *detained there* or *imprisoned there*. There was nothing voluntary about him being in that place for longer than any detainee was supposed to be there. The Home Office has blood on its hands. 😔 #Manston
    t.co/gFyqqIlNvT

  12. Action Against Detention and Deportations (AADD)’s response to death in Manston
    Freedom publish a statement from Action Against Detention & Deportations about the tragic death of a man who spent a week incarcerated in Manston detention camp. The Home Office won’t say who
    freedomnews.org.uk/2022/11/22/
    #actionagainstdetentionanddeportations #borders #deathinmanston #Detentioncentres #manston #migration

  13. CW: migration refugees Manston UK Europe

    🤯 Fantastic reporting (as usual) by @TheGuardian & Diane Taylor on the #Manston #asylum #detention centre & the mess that is the #UK #HomeOffice.

    Great quote (unclear if by Tony Benn / Neal Ascherson): "The way the government treats refugees shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it." 🔥

    tinyurl.com/4k56x4xv

  14. CW: UK Politics; Refugees

    “Britain exists in an imaginary state of crisis about immigration…

    [But] appalling failures have occurred not because there are too many migrants, but because the government has broken its own asylum system…”

    Great read from Nesrine Malik on a “crisis by design, not of arrivals”

    #UKPolitics #Refugees #HostileEnvironment #Manston

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  15. RT LukWSM: My brother just sent me this. He is stuck in #Manston currently. 😓