Catalogue Number
NMLH.2025.3.3
Object Name
leaflet
Title
'These Walls Must Fall. People are being taken from our communities, locked up in prison-like detention centres without time limit, with no idea of when they might be released. Not having committed a crime. They just don't have the correct immigration
papers. This has to stop.'
Place
Manchester, UK
People
These Walls Must Fall
Description
A leaflet with an illustration of Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester cut in two by a high grey wall. In the sky above the cityscape are the words 'These Walls Must Fall' and a paragraph describing immigration detention as inhumane. The reverse is an illustration of the inside of a prison, titled 'What is immigration detention?' with facts about the topic in yellow boxes covering the illustration.
These Walls Must Fall is a migrant rights campaign which campaigns against immigration detention and the hostile environment policies which criminalise migrants in the UK. They highlight the long term mental and physical health impacts of detention on migrants, the cost of detention (£160 million a year at the time of publication), and the lack of time limit on immigration detention.
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