"The UK is unique in Europe in locking up migrants for years, without time limit," says Jerome Phelps, director of Detention Action. “Asylum-seekers and migrants find indefinite detention deeply traumatic, particularly where they have already experienced persecution or mental health problems,” says Phelps. “They think of the UK as a home of human rights, yet find themselves locked up in detention centres that are identical to high-security prisons.”
Around 27,000 migrants were held in UK detention centres in 2011. Over half were held for less than two months but, since there…
"The UK is unique in Europe in locking up migrants for years, without time limit," says Jerome Phelps, director of Detention Action. “Asylum-seekers and migrants find indefinite detention deeply traumatic,…
