(2 Nov 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manston, Kent - 2 November 2022
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of protesters chanting (English) "Refugees are welcome here" outside Manston immigration facility, bus driving past
2. Various of protesters chanting and holding signs
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kay Marsh, 31-year-old protester:
"We are here in solidarity with the thousands of people that are detained in this facility behind me. We're here to call for better conditions and the closure, if possible, of facilities like this."
4. Various of placards
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Candy Gregory, 67-year-old local councillor at protest:
"The government aren't stepping up. They're not looking after these people. We have huge concerns about what's going on, what their future is, what support there is and these people have come here because they're fleeing the wars."
6. Protesters outside facility
7. Various of protester Gerard Bay showing bags of toys that he was given by his friends and supporters for protest
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gerard Bay, 57-year-old protester:
"So I'm hoping the guys on the front will accept all these toys because there are children here who have been here for weeks. They're supposed to be here for 24 hours as a processing, but they're here for... some have been for a month. So there's kids that need toys. They need something to entertain them. They're not getting it. It's very sterile conditions. Overcrowding, up to 4000 people have been here."
9. Protesters handing toys to security staff outside facility
10. Border security logo
11. People thought to be refugees
12. Feet
++DAY SHOTS++
13. Exterior of immigration facility
14. Various of bus believed to be carrying migrants leaving facility
15. Logo of facility
16. Various of building inside facility, worker
17. Children playing football
18. Security personnel walking in front of showers
19. Various of fences around facility
STORYLINE:
Around 50 protesters gathered outside an immigration facility in the UK county of Kent on Wednesday, demonstrating against what they called "wretched" conditions endured by thousands of migrations inside.
Manston — a former airfield in southeast England — is supposed to be a temporary processing centre where new arrivals spend 24 hours before moving on to longer-term accommodation, but refugee groups say some people have been stuck there for weeks.
Some families are sleeping in tents and there have been reported cases of diphtheria and scabies.
"We are here in solidarity with the thousands of people that are detained in this facility behind me," said Kay Marsh, a 31-year-old charity worker who attended the protest.
Another protester, Gerard Bay, brought four bags of toys that he handed over to security personnel at the entrance for children inside the facility.
The government said "large numbers" of people were being moved out of Manston on Tuesday to relieve pressure.
The number of asylum-seekers attempting to reach Britain by boat has increased steadily, and the system for considering applications has slowed to a crawl amid turmoil in the Conservative government, which recently appointed its third prime minister and third home secretary this year.
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