The UK stands alone in Europe as the only country with no time limit on detention.

On 7 November over 1000 people from around the country will converge at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre to demonstrate, demanding that Yarl’s Wood is finally shut down and calling for a complete end to the practice of immigration detention.

The brutal inhumanity displayed in the case of Alois Dvorzac, an unwell and confused 84 year-old man, shackled while he died of heart failure, is but one terrible story of the 30,000 people who get locked up indefinitely in one of the UK’s 14 Immigration Detention Centres.