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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A paedophile fraudster with more than 40 aliases who evaded justice for 28 years after absconding from prison has been jailed for three years and eight months for attempting to
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A human rights charity has written to the Home Secretary warning that people on board a deportation flight scheduled to leave the UK on Thursday may not have been given
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A senior minister has defended a plan to push on with a flight deporting 50 people to Jamaica despite widespread calls for the jet to be grounded. Chief Secretary to
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Lord Dubs has pledged to continue his campaign to guarantee family reunion rights for unaccompanied child refugees after EU withdrawal despite a Commons defeat. Conservative MPs voted down the measure
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The first paediatric operating room in a refugee camp is to be build by a Scottish charity, it has been announced at the World Economic Forum. Edinburgh-based Kids Operating Room
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A Congolese man who was almost deported from the UK after seeking political asylum has been granted refugee status following an outcry by supporters. Otis Bolamu, 38, said he fled
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MPs have voted down proposals to enshrine protections for child refugees as part of the Government’s Brexit agreement. Following his election victory, Boris Johnson re-drafted his European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)
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Conservative MPs are being urged to “take a moral stance” and support an amendment demanding the Government continues to negotiate to take in lone child refugees from Europe after Brexit.
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