This is a cruel system. Read Agnes Tanoh’s account:
But I’m dedicated to trying to get people to have compassion for those in detention. I want everyone to understand that these people have left everything; that they’ve been forced to leave everything they’ve ever known – just like I was.
And I will always stand against putting asylum seekers in detention. Anywhere people are saying, ‘Stop detention!’: I will be there saying it right along with them.
17 June 2025: Metro: I followed every rule as an asylum seeker – I was still detained
Once again, I was woken at 4am in my room at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
I was put in the back of a van and driven for around six hours to an airport, where I was told I’d be deported.
It’s difficult to describe the stress of that journey – the terror of thinking I was about to be sent back to a country I’d fled; a country I loved, but where I’d surely be put in prison, or killed, if I was to return.
I had to wait around at the airport for hours. During which time, my fear grew. At the end of the day, around 10pm, the officials who’d taken me to the airport said: ‘OK, you’re not going today, after all’. And I was taken all the way back to Yarl’s Wood.
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