Protesters have called for Manston detention centre in Kent to be closed down, saying the detainees are being treated 'like animals' and the centre is 'not fit for habitation'.
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The protests come after it was revealed that the former military base, which opened as a processing centre for asylum seekers in February with the intention of holding a maximum of 1,600 people for 24 hours at a time, was housing about 4,000 people for weeks on end and detainees had described conditions as 'like a prison'

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