Dungavel Asylum Detainees Refusing Food

About 50 detainees at a immigration removal detention centre in South Lanarkshire are refusing food, the Home Office has confirmed. Earlier, a detainee at the Dungavel detention centre told BBC Scotland that 100 people were involved.

He said they were angry at the way asylum seekers’ tribunals were conducted and the lack of attention to detail by solicitors. He also claimed that one man had been brutally treated by officers.

Dungavel House is Scotland’s only immigration removal centre.