🩵DIGNITY NOT DETENTION🏴
On St Andrew’s Day, Justice & Peace Scotland invites you to ‘Dignity Not Detention’, a peaceful solidarity gathering outside Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
In a climate of increasing hostility around immigration this small act of witness is a way to offer an alternative message of fraternity and compassion.
The UK remains the only country in Europe with no statutory time limit on immigration detention. This means that people can be held in prison-like conditions indefinitely, with no idea when they will be released. The prolonged uncertainty causes profound mental distress, exacerbates trauma, and tears individuals away from their communities, studies, work, and families.
We gather to bring attention to this unjust and inhumane practice, mindful of Pope Leo’s recent reflections on the moral responsibilities governments bear in shaping their immigration systems:
“I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have.”
📆Sunday 30th November
🕐1.00PM
📍Dungavel IRC, Strathaven, ML10 6RF