Monday, March 15, 2010

UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference


Editor’s note: Please see correction/update at the end of this report.
An article in the March 14 UK Observer reports that United Kingdom’s asylum immigration system is systematically denying claims of torture by asylum applicants, despite ample medical evidence by applicants of torture in their home countries. Since 2001, many asylum applicants have been sent to prison, with murderers and rapists, despite the fact they have never broken any law, making Britain the only European Union country to have such a practice.

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