Children in detention centres

bristol | globalisation | announcement Friday October 03, 2008 10:36 by nickleberry

An online action for interested parties.

I'm not normally a big one for online petitions and the like. However a friend let me know of a campaign by the New Statesman to ``end the practice of detaining children and families for the purposes of immigration control." Now this seems like an eminently worthwhile campaign - the thought of detaining children while they await the outcome of their asylum application is just horrendous.

What's more, there is always plenty of interest on this newswire about matters of immigration - most recently there was the shocking deportation of Babi:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688892
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688883

So if you've got two minutes to spare, whack your name on the petition:
http://www.newstatesman.com/2008/09/children-petition