People seeking sanctuary are being dumped in disused army barracks.

It’s detention in all but name.

Conditions are inhumane, traumatising and putting lives at risk.

@ukhomeoffice must #CloseTheBarracks https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/08/end-housing-asylum-seekers-old-army-barracks-uk-ministers-urged
End housing of asylum seekers in old army barracks, UK ministers urged

Exclusive: dozens of organisations make plea after damning reports on conditions at former military sites

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/08/end-housing-asylum-seekers-old-army-barracks-uk-ministers-urged
We can't stay silent when people seeking asylum are left to languish in overcrowded, dirty accommodation that is nowhere near Covid-secure.

It's an example of the structural racism that has led to people of colour disproportionately dying from Covid-19 https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2020/12/02/systemic-racism-in-the-asylum-housing-system
Systemic racism in the asylum housing system

If you listen to Home Office ministers you could be forgiven for thinking that the only issues in asylum worth addressing are people crossing the Channel in boats. You'd be very wrong, as they are.

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2020/12/02/systemic-racism-in-the-asylum-housing-system
We can’t stay silent when those fleeing war and persecution are housed in places that force them to relive the trauma and torture they have only just escaped.
We can’t stay silent when people seeking safety are threatened by the far-right but then have their own freedoms curbed.
These problems aren’t confined to barracks. Every day we hear from people desperate for leaks to be stopped, holes to be filled, heating to be fixed.

Desperate to be treated with dignity.
The path that’s led us here is the route that should be made unviable.

https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1292852961996156929?s=20
We can’t stay silent. We won’t stay silent. Will you?

#StandUpForAsylum and #CloseTheBarracks https://act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/73095/action/1
Close the barracks

People seeking safety in the UK have been dumped in disused army barracks. It's detention in all but name and is putting lives at risk.

https://act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/73095/action/1
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