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'Violence and Destitution' at Campsfield House

by Nejra Cehic | 21:11 GMT, Fri 25 July 2008


Nejra Cehic investigates the plight of failed asylum seekers in the UK, focussing on community activity around the issue in Oxfordshire.

During the video, Harris, a failed asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, recalls a violent incident he claims to have witnessed while inside Campsfield House, the detention centre just outside Oxford.

A spokesperson for GEO Group UK Ltd., which manages Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, declined to comment on the alleged incidents of violence mentioned in this programme.

This investigation was originally filmed for Cherwell24 in Hilary Term 2008.

Page last updated: 2008-12-19 16:49:55
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"Ex Campsfield detainee" by Redouane Messaoudi
Posted: 03:27 GMT, Thu 20th November 2008
First of all I want to thankyou for the information provided in this short documentary about what is going behind the so called Campsfield hell. You can not imagine how many people who don't desrve to be there or to be treated like an animal. I've been there as a result of the birocratie used by the home office. The home office want to destroy my family life and my uni studies...Still fighting!!!
 
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