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SAJID JAVID was branded a “disgrace” tonight after it emerged the Home Office needlessly detained a mentally ill female asylum-seeker on her birthday.
In the latest hostile environment scandal, the woman spent a harrowing 48 hours locked up earlier this week after immigration officials made a botched attempt to deport her to a Muslim country in west Africa. We are not naming the country for safety reasons.
She fled from her family there over a decade ago and has lived in Britain ever since, where she has struggled to secure asylum.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Fears grow for flotilla activist Yvonne Ridley, abducted by Israeli soldiers and held in famous Ktzi'ot prison camp
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
