Author: Diane Taylor
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Record number of asylum seekers died in 2024 while in care of Home Office
A record number of asylum seekers died last year while in the care of the Home Office, according to data obtained by the Guardian, and officials admit they do not know when some of them died. Fifty-one people died in Home Office-provided accommodation in 2024, an increase of 11 on the previous year, and a…
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Racial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: asylum seekers tell of brutal conditions at Manston migrant centre
When David Neal, the former independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, visited the Manston asylum processing centre in Kent at the height of the crisis in October 2022, he said the conditions he found there were so alarming it left him “speechless”. People were crammed on the dirty floors of marquees to sleep, toilets…
