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‘I pray for a miracle’: the African women held for years in India’s detention centres

Now she is being held indefinitely in an immigrant detention centre in India, it is becoming a death sentence.

‘I pray for a miracle’: the African women held for years in India’s detention centres

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Now she is being held indefinitely in an immigrant detention centre in India, it is becoming a death sentence.

Rounded up in raids and with no access to lawyers, 22 women including trafficking victims and refugees speak of filthy conditions and beatings while stuck in legal limbo Nine months without the...

For 29 years, the Kenyan mother of four had managed her HIV.

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Now she is being held indefinitely in an immigrant detention centre in India, it is becoming a death sentence. Rounded up in raids and with no access to lawyers, 22 women including trafficking victims and refugees speak of filthy conditions and beatings while stuck in legal limbo Nine months without the antiretroviral drugs that keep her alive has caused Mary's* health to decline. For 29 years, the Kenyan mother of four had managed her HIV.

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Rounded up in raids and with no access to lawyers, 22 women including trafficking victims and refugees speak of filthy conditions and beatings while stuck in legal limbo Nine months without the antiretroviral drugs that keep her alive has caused Mary's* health to decline. For 29 years, the Kenyan mother of four had managed her HIV. "If I don't get my tablets, I may become bedridden.

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