Migrants are sent on three-hour trip to detention centre while still wearing wet clothes

Migrants arriving in Dover after crossing English Channel are sent on three-hour 150m-mile trip to detention centre while still wearing wet clothes, report reveals At least 8,400 people reached UK in small boats after crossing Channel last year  Many are initially placed in short-term holding facilities (STHF) in Dover or Kent  Can stay for up … Read more

Covid: Germany to hold people who refuse to quarantine in detention centres

Germans who refuse to quarantine after being exposed to Covid will be held in detention centres under new rules prepared by regional authorities. The eastern state of Saxony has confirmed plans to hold quarantine-flouters in a fenced-off section of a refugee camp set to be build next week. The regional state claimed that the facility … Read more

Coronavirus China: Wuhan whistleblower ‘kept in restraints and fed by tube in detention’

A Chinese citizen journalist who was arrested after reporting about the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is kept in restraints 24 hours a day and force-fed by tube after going on a hunger strike in prison, her lawyer has claimed.  Zhang Zhan, who criticised Wuhan government’s handling of the crisis, is facing up to five years … Read more

Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions

Revealed: Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions Asylum seekers are being driven in taxis from airports to hotels or interviews Clearsprings Ready Homes is awarded £1.1billion Home Office contract over 10 years  The private company houses migrants in south of England and Wales It has paid one … Read more

British schoolgirl who joined ISIS with her twin sister moved to high-security Syrian detention camp

A young woman who fled Manchester to join Islamic State with her twin sister has been moved to a high-security Syrian detention camp with her young son. Twin sisters Salma and Zahra Halane fled their home in Chorlton when they were 16 years old to travel to Syria in June 2014. They were described as academically … Read more

Cops declare Seattle protest a riot as youth detention center goes up in flames

A Black Lives Matter protester has been shot dead during a march in Austin as a youth detention center and police precinct have been torched in Seattle and demonstrators gather again in Portland amid stand-offs with Donald Trump’s federal agents.  One protester was shot and killed when gunshots were fired during a protest in downtown … Read more