Hunger strike enters seventh day

Campsfield was converted to a detention centre in 1993

About 40 detainees at an Oxfordshire immigration centre are continuing their hunger strike, now in its seventh day.

Thirteen Iraqi Kurds began fasting last Saturday in protest against deportation and reports an Iraqi man killed himself after being deported from the UK.

The Home Office said the situation was "under control".

It was initially thought about 70 people were taking part but the Home Office said 46 people refused their meal on Wednesday evening.

Some of the hunger-strikers are also protesting against conditions at the centre.

Campsfield House, which holds some 200 asylum seekers and foreign prisoners, has been the subject of a campaign to close it.

The GEO Group, which runs the site for the government, had declined to comment.