MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) – Suspected illegal immigrants detained in police raids who have been transferred to a holding facility on the edge of Moscow after the closure of a temporary camp in the eastern part of the city will still be living in tents, Russian police said.
About 234 people have been moved out of the original camp in Golyanovo to a center at Severny, on the fringes of Moscow, where they will await a court decision on their deportation.
A lack of space at the Severny center means that military tents were pitched in the grounds, according to a police spokesperson. “The center itself can hold 400 people and, as space is freed up, people housed in the tents will be transferred to the building,” a police spokesperson said Tuesday.
The original Moscow camp, which was criticized by human rights groups for its conditions, was set up in early August to hold over 600 people, mostly from Vietnam, after thousands of suspected illegal immigrants were detained in a series of police sweeps across the capital.
