The last few weeks have proved a shocking reminder of Britain’s cruel detention and deportation regime.
In the early hours of Tuesday 10 February, a charter flight took off to Jamaica, deporting men who had been here since infancy, and who were more British than foreign.
Just hours later, chilling footage emerged which shows a group of guards violently assaulting a rape survivor, known as CA.
And this weekend revealed the abuse of Lionel, who is partially sighted and partially deaf, who spent four days in agony after detention centre staff refused to take him to hospital for treatment on his ankle. When he was finally taken to hospital, an x-ray showed his ankle is broken in four places.
This brutality is all too common. And it is not a design flaw – it is the inevitable conclusion of a system which treats people as less than human.
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Hidden brutality
The horrific violence faced by CA is not a one-off. Abuse of immigration detainees in detention and at …