![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/protestors-brave-heavy-rain-to-demand-closure-of-refugee-detention-centre/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_Migrant-Channel-crossing-incidents.jpg&description=Demonstrators from Action Against Detention And Deportation chanted and banged metal pots to demand Manston migrant centre in Kent be shut down after becoming dangerously overcrowded in recent weeksProtest held outside Manston processing centre to demand site is shut downHundreds of protestors have braved pouring rain to demand the closure of a detention centre for refugees in Kent. Action Against Detention And Deportation demonstrators chanted and banged metal pots outside the Manston migrant centre today. The dangerously overcrowded centre has faced critics this week and a video obtained by the Sunday Mirror this week showed horrific living conditions refugees endure. Footage of the site, 20 miles from Dover, shows detainees sleeping on mats on the wooden floor of a marquee as temperatures plunge. One insider told us: "These conditions seem more like a third-world country than something you'd expect to see in Britain. It's appalling." Protestors braved the rain in Kent today ( PA) Manston was designed to hold 1,600 people, but at its most overcrowded time, a reported 3,500 were held there for weeks. Today, protestors in the umbrella-clad crowd shouted "shut Manston down", while some unfurled a banner reading: "The enemy doesn't arrive by boat, he arrives by limousine." Several people raised placards reading "no-one is illegal" and "refugees welcome". Protesters outside the Manston migrant centre ( PA) Some people also called for the Home Secretary to step down, with a banner saying "Braverman out now". Videos posted online by protesters showed what appeared to be a mother, father and their baby waving at them from inside the facility. Benny Hunter, 29, a youth worker from Lewisham, said he attended the Manston protest to "demand a closure to the camp". Man thought to be a migrant at the window of the migrant centre ( PA) He explained: "We came together as part of Actions Against Detention & Deportations to show solidarity with the people detained illegally inside){kind=link}
Demonstrators from Action Against Detention And Deportation chanted and banged metal pots to demand Manston migrant centre in Kent be shut down after becoming dangerously overcrowded in recent weeks
Hundreds of protestors have braved pouring rain to demand the closure of a detention centre for refugees in Kent.
Action Against Detention And Deportation demonstrators chanted and banged metal pots outside the Manston migrant centre today.
The dangerously overcrowded centre has faced critics this week and a video obtained by the Sunday Mirror this week showed horrific living conditions refugees endure.
Footage of the site, 20 miles from Dover, shows detainees sleeping on mats on the wooden floor of a marquee as temperatures plunge.