Protesters demand that Yarl's Wood is shut down following sexual violence and racism allegations. Credit: Demotix/Peter Marshall
Today hundreds of people will hold a mass rally at the gates of Yarl’s Wood detention centre to speak up for the women who are locked up there.
Speakers including refugee activists Lydia Besong and Maimuna Jawo, comedian Josie Long, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett, and Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty will join with hundreds of others to demand that the government takes action.
