People's Trial of the Home Office
Home Office, London. Mon 11 Feb 2019
Global Women's Strime and All African WOmen's Group get their banners
ready outside the Home Office
and furniture arrives to set up the courtroom
The players get ready
More banners are put up. Unlike the Home Office, 'God's Love Knows
No Borders'
The director of the play in an orange scarf gives some instruction
to the judges
Some hold posters listing some of the women killed by being forced
out of flats in Soho by police and council crackdowns to be murdered on
the streets
and call for decriminalisation of prostitution
A witness from the All African Women's Group reads her evidence before
performing
Two refugees were among the witnesses. Asylum seekers a disbeleived
and ill-treated as policy by the Home
Office, held, sometimes for years in detention, subjected to assaults,
denied proper medical treatment.
The prisoner sits in the dock
More witnesses come to give evidence, SOAS Detainee Support reading
out some of the accounts from women in detention
'End the Hostile Environment'
A poster lists people 'Killed by Police for Being Black & In Mental
Distress'
Evidence calls for the decriminalisation of sex work which would make
it safer
and people hold up lists of some of those who have died because of
Home Office actions and policies
The judges listen
The criminal Home Office awaits sentence
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