Detained Voices

Voices from inside UK immigration detention

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

New post: I am writing to share a direct and unprecedented testimony from a night of pain, dignity, and unity experienced by asylum seekers detained at Harmondsworth and Brook House Immigration Removal Centres on 14–15 January 2026. https://t.co/ajTLLMNiun

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

This testimony details what happened that night, including the arrival of special forces, and forcible removal of detainees with tickets to France. It's a firsthand account from victims themselves, intended to raise awareness and inform human rights organizations and the public.

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

New post: I am writing to share a direct and unprecedented testimony from a night of pain, dignity, and unity experienced by asylum seekers detained at Harmondsworth and Brook House Immigration Removal Centres on 14–15 January 2026. https://t.co/ajTLLMNiun

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

I have no hope for life.

I need help to make my voice heard, to help release me. I am so miserable and unhappy, I can’t believe it.

https://t.co/s2kjXSVPxi

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

NEW POST: I need help to make my voice heard, to help release me. I am so miserable and unhappy, I can’t believe it.

https://t.co/s2kjXSVPxi

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

No one takes my case seriously. They just put me here. I don’t know what is going to happen in the future. I have no clue. It makes me sad. I only have 70p allowance a day. I don’t know if I should buy food or buy credit to call my family.

https://t.co/s2kjXSVPxi

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New Post from Yarl's Wood: "I feel good for the people who were able to escape. They are free now. God bless them – I wish they never caught them. Because to be an immigrant is not a crime... We are with blood and with heart, we are the same as them. "https://t.co/mRb6PMPQSt

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"There’s no water, nobody can go to the toilet – people are basically going to the toilet in the bin."

https://t.co/ZqYNjcamPX

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"I’m afraid to go behind the door at 9. If the buzzer’s not working they shouldn’t be keeping people in their rooms for 12 hours."

https://t.co/ZqYNjcamPX

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"We’ve been given two bottles of water to wash your face and have a drink, but there’s no running water, nothing."

https://t.co/ZqYNjcamPX

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

NEW POST: "There's not even candlelight here"

[A statement from Harmondsworth IRC, where there has been no electricity or running water since midnight]

https://t.co/ZqYNjcamPX

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[New statement]

"And there’s nothing to sanitise with. We couldn’t have any visitors up till a few days ago, but then we all mix here. Then they do lockdowns – we had a 15-day lockdown last time, with no internet, stuck in the wings, the corridors."

https://t.co/j62MAFR7QC

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Protests at refugee hotel in Reading. see here for details: https://t.co/2QDZRTrJMI

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"Once the police took us to Lille to keep us away from the Jungle, and left us in the street; they even took our tents and food in Dunkirk. They were treating us as if we were an epidemic that they needed to get rid of." https://t.co/7Bp8SwYHSw

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New Statement: My dream is to put my head on my pillow to sleep without thinking that tomorrow I might be forced on the streets https://t.co/PKs4DfCcB7

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New statement (from someone due to be deported to Spain on 17.09.20): I am still scared because I don't know what is going to happen next
https://t.co/L35BarUTFO

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The house with my father is the only place I feel safe. This is the life of the refugee and the migrant. My journey as a refugee from the war in Yemen till now – there’s always imprisonment and detention waiting for me.

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[New Statement by 1 of 3 Yemeni brothers due to be forcibly removed on a Charter flight to Spain tomorrow]

https://t.co/VnV1qkMq3g

[Detained Voices @detainedvoices]

I went back to my room, but heard their shouts from my room. The shouts of the detainees, and the shouts of the police. I was terrified. I felt like I was hearing executions and waiting for my own. I saw them being dragged away, handcuffed.