Top Oxfordshire band Radiohead are among famous stars backing moves to secure bail for asylum seekers detained at Campsfield House, in Kidlington.

The band members, who got together at Abingdon School, have lent their support to a new book called Opening the Doors to Freedom.

The book has been published as a tribute to the tireless work of many people in Oxford who have campaigned on behalf of the detainees.

Money raised from Radiohead's 2001 South Park concert in Oxford financed the publication, which includes messages of support from the band, actress Dame Diana Rigg, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, and novelist Beverley Naidoo.

The book also details how radio DJ John Peel helped successfully bail a Romanian human rights activist from the immigration centre three years ago.

The Oxford charity, Asylum Welcome, which set up the Oxford Bail Support Group with money donated by Radiohead, has managed to secure the release of more than a hundred people held at Campsfield over the past three years.

Asylum seekers held there while waiting for their appeals to be heard have no automatic right to bail and can be held indefinitely.

A spokesman for Radiohead said: "We're proud that our music has helped provide funds so that the Oxford Bail Support Group can offer hope and liberation for some of those people unjustly imprisoned at Campsfield."

The authors of Opening Doors to Freedom all live in Oxford.

They are: Niamh McClean, a postgraduate student who specialises in the human rights of detained asylum seekers; Anne Mobbs, co-ordinator of the Oxford Bail Support Group; and Lonel Dumitrascu, a Romanian human rights activist and trustee of Asylum Welcome.

The book, priced £3.50, is available from the Quakers Bookshop, Friends' Meeting House, St Giles, Oxford, or from the support group at 43A Cardigan Street, Jericho, Oxford.