Protesters at Dungavel, Sunday 25 October 2015 (Sally Martinez)
Today we gather with supporters from all over Scotland to call for the closure of Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in South Lanarkshire. We demand the end to the policy of immigration detention across the UK.
“It’s the bad place to be,” says Aisha (not her real name), a former detainee at Dungavel. “It’s more or less like prison, being with an immigration issue makes somebody feel like a criminal, makes us feel like criminals. [Some] guards and staff are very cheeky, treating you like Bull Shit. You cannot do things on your own, there’s no freedom, no personal freedom.”
