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Your morning wake up call from former Conservative immigration minister @carolinenokes:
The lessons of the Windrush scandal have been “torn up, disregarded and rendered clearly completely irrelevant” when it comes to asylum seekers. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-caroline-nokes-priti-patel-uk-b1776208.html
The lessons of the Windrush scandal have been “torn up, disregarded and rendered clearly completely irrelevant” when it comes to asylum seekers. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-caroline-nokes-priti-patel-uk-b1776208.html
Her boss @sajidjavid responded to the scandal by declaring that this inhumane treatment must "never happen again to any group of people".
We saw it happening every day to torture survivors & other asylum seekers, even then. Many of us raised the alarm: https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/joint-open-letter-to-the-home-secretary-on-standards-of-proof-in-asylum-decision-making
We saw it happening every day to torture survivors & other asylum seekers, even then. Many of us raised the alarm: https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/joint-open-letter-to-the-home-secretary-on-standards-of-proof-in-asylum-decision-making
Then we compiled the evidence of 15 years of #LessonsNotLearned and laid out what needed to change at the Home Office to fix the problems.
With our friends & colleagues @HelenBamber @JRSUK @JCWI_UK @RefugeeAction @refugeecouncil @SSOonline @UKLGIG https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/lessons-not-learned-report-september-2019
With our friends & colleagues @HelenBamber @JRSUK @JCWI_UK @RefugeeAction @refugeecouncil @SSOonline @UKLGIG https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/lessons-not-learned-report-september-2019
There were genuine efforts at the Home Office to overhaul the culture and get asylum decisions right first time.
And the decisions did begin to improve
Just look at the data here compiled by @AndyHewettNGO
http://www.andyhewett.com/asylum
And the decisions did begin to improve
Just look at the data here compiled by @AndyHewettNGO
http://www.andyhewett.com/asylum
All of this progress risks being torched in the vicious culture war against asylum seekers ignited by Number 10 and Priti Patel: https://twitter.com/SonyaSceats/status/1315182257536204802?s=20
Patel is right now overseeing the biggest assault on the principle of refugee protection in modern Britain history.
Recent changes to the Immigration Rules aim to block protection for anyone who hasn't arrived via a direct flight from the torture chamber https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/changes-to-immigration-rules-will-prevent-people-seeking-asylum-in-the-uk/
Recent changes to the Immigration Rules aim to block protection for anyone who hasn't arrived via a direct flight from the torture chamber https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/changes-to-immigration-rules-will-prevent-people-seeking-asylum-in-the-uk/
