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Demonstration at Harmondsworth and Colnbrook
2006-04-08 - London
Scotland International Day of Action
2006-04-08 - Glasgow
Communications House Demonstration
2006-04-10 - London
Demonstration and March in Manchester
2006-04-15 - Manchester
Demonstration at Campsfield House
2006-04-29 - Oxford
Convergence on Villawood Detention Centre
2006-04-14 - Australia
Solidarity Vigil at Perth Detention Centre
2006-04-?? - Australia

  
Campsfield to Close in October 2004

Campsfield House is now expected to close in October 2004. This is approximately 18 months after the date (April 2003) originally given, when David Blunkett branded the centre "outdated" and "no longer appropriate in the 21st century".

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Campsfield to Close in October 2004
2002-12-02 - Significant set back in closure date for Campsfield
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Life inside Campsfield House - December 2002
2003-01-03 - Despite announcements that Campsfield is to close, this article describes life as usual inside
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The History of the Campsfield Nine
2003-07-07 - In 1998 the trial of nine former detainees from Campsfield collapsed spectacularly when the evidence of Group 4 witnesses was shown to be very unreliable.
In an extract from her book Open Borders: the case against immigration controls (Pluto Press 2000), Teresa Hayter of the Campaign to Close Campsfield and Barbed Wire Britain Network sums up the events surrounding the trial.

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