About 100 people take part in protest in exercise yard of immigration removal centre in west London

Dozens of detainees at one of the Home Office’s largest immigration removal centres staged a protest during a power outage in the early hours of Saturday morning.

According to reports, about 100 people at the Harmondsworth facility in west London protested in the exercise yard. It is thought that a prolonged power cut, which left the centre without power for up to 24 hours, triggered the protest. No injuries were reported at the scene.

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