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UKBA Report Shows Failure to Protect Victims

anon@indymedia.org (marker) | 04.03.2011 20:23

An audit of the UK Border Agency’s process for reviewing the immigration detention of individuals who claim they are survivors of torture, published on 1st March 2011 by the Home Office over a year after it was conducted, totally fails to deliver on its intention to establish the extent to which the UKBA is complying with its policy against the detention of torture victims except in ‘very exceptional circumstances’. The report states that in 91 per cent of cases where “Rule 35” forms were filed by medical practitioners in detention centres, the individuals were not released, but no explanation as to why these decisions were taken is offered.


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- Original article on IMC Northern England: http://northern-indymedia.org/other_medias/1426