Asylum protest
One hundred asylum seekers being held at Haslar jail in Gosport, Hampshire, are due to hold an emergency meeting today to decide whether to resume a hunger strike in protest at the Home Office practice of imprisoning political asylum seekers while their applications are being processed.
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