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Detainees at an immigration removal centre are beginning their second week on a hunger strike.

About 30 people are refusing food at Campsfield House, near Oxford.

The strike is being led a group of Iraqi Kurds protesting at the threat of being deported back to Iraq, where they say their lives will be at risk.

The UK Border Agency has said it is committed to its policy of removing people who have no legal basis to stay in Britain.

The Iraqi Kurds said in a statement that they were on hunger strike because they are being treated like criminals, and separated from their families.

Detainee Fazzel Abdul Ahmed said he knew of one man who had been deported from the UK and had shot himself the following day.

Mr Ahmed also said it was "very important for us" that the government allowed the courts to examine the detainees' cases again, because Iraq was "the most dangerous country in the world".

Other detainees have now joined in to protest about conditions at the centre.

There has been a long campaign to close Campsfield House, where there have previously been riots.

Eight men are still on the run after they started a fire and escaped from the centre in August of last year.

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I can't think of anything better to do than sit back and watch it unfold. I had my turn to get irritated when we had similar camps for illegals.
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I'm sure the human rights argument will come into play soon - it usually does.
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I'm sure the human rights argument will come into play soon - it usually does.
I won't prod at spiders, someone else can raise the rights thing. As long as they consider everyone's rights, including (but not limited to);-
  • The rights of many legal applicants who are waiting for the wheels to grind whilst the illegals push in on the queue
  • The rights violated by the possibility that some illegals leave home illegally because they have records and don't want to be noticed by authorities
  • The rights their host country risks losing if undesirables are mixed in with refugees
  • The rights of legitimate refugees if they are tarred with the same brush as the abovementioned undesirables
  • The rights of taxpaying citizens who have long contributed to their country, in having to also support non-paying passengers among the illegals.
  • The rights of the illegals themselves who in desperation or ignorance may get ripped off by the various "carriers".
If I was to pick one, I would say that the tendency to forget the receiving country has rights too is the one that most offends.
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If I was to pick one, I would say that the tendency to forget the receiving country has rights too is the one that most offends.
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