Detained Voices

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. detainedvoices.com/2026/01/16/rep…

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.

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. detainedvoices.com/2026/01/16/rep…

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. detainedvoices.com/2023/11/01/i-n…

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. detainedvoices.com/2023/11/01/i-n…

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. detainedvoices.com/2023/11/01/i-n…

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. "detainedvoices.com/2023/04/29/the…

"There’s no water, nobody can go to the toilet – people are basically going to the toilet in the bin." detainedvoices.com/2022/11/04/the…

"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." detainedvoices.com/2022/11/04/the…

"We’ve been given two bottles of water to wash your face and have a drink, but there’s no running water, nothing." detainedvoices.com/2022/11/04/the…

NEW POST: "There's not even candlelight here" [A statement from Harmondsworth IRC, where there has been no electricity or running water since midnight] detainedvoices.com/2022/11/04/the…

[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." ow.ly/e8hC50Ito1O

Protests at refugee hotel in Reading. see here for details: m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

"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." detainedvoices.com/2020/09/19/my-…

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 ow.ly/pjld50BvAyz

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 ow.ly/L1G450Bu0yZ

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.

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.

[New Statement by 1 of 3 Yemeni brothers due to be forcibly removed on a Charter flight to Spain tomorrow] detainedvoices.com/2020/09/16/my-…