The Government could receive around £98 million a year if it lifted the ban on asylum seekers working, according to a new report. If people seeking asylum had the right
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A rise in the number of self-harm incidents in immigration detention centres is the chilling effect of the Government’s “hostile environment”, it has been claimed. Home Office statistics indicate that
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Asylum seekers have told how they fear for their lives at the hands of coronavirus while living in “crowded” Government accommodation as they await a decision on their claims. Two
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Dozens of asylum seekers in Glasgow are being left “malnourished with food not fit for human consumption”, according to a charity supporting them. Positive Action In Housing (PAIH) has rallied
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Asylum seekers in Glasgow have been treated like “Amazon parcels” during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity calling for an inquiry into their accommodation facilities. It comes after six
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Refugees, charities and MPs are calling for an inquiry into an asylum seeker “accommodation crisis” in Glasgow after an attack in the city last week. Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, from
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Asylum seekers are living in poverty amid the coronavirus lockdown, and having to choose between buying food and medicine, a charity has warned. Campaigners have called on the Government to
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A people-smuggler has admitted killing 39 migrants who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck. The bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered by emergency services at
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An unannounced inspection of short-term immigration detention facilities run by the UK in French ports has raised “serious concerns around safeguarding and legality of detention”. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
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A mentally ill man died in “inhumane and degrading” conditions at a detention centre after a catalogue of “gross failures” by doctors, Home Office staff and other organisations, an inquest
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