A substantial number of asylum-seekers held at Campsfield House at Kidlington may be able to mount a legal challenge against their detention, says a leading human rights lawyer.
Louise Christian, daughter of former Lord Mayor of Oxford Maureen Christian, said asylum-seekers who are locked up in the immigration detention centre because the Home Office says they will abscond, may have a good case against the ruling.
She said: "I believe there are a substantial number of people in Campsfield who ought not to be there. But you would have to challenge each case on its individual merits."
Ms Christian was speaking after a High Court ruling last Friday that four Iraqui Kurds were being unlawfully kept at Oakington detention centre in Cambridgeshire.
**A hunger strike which began at Campsfield following the High Court ruling about Oakington, is ending.
It is being called off in the wake of the disaster in the United States. Raymond Nwakalo, 33, a spokesman for the 97 detainees, said it was being ended "out of respect for the people who died".
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