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Britain / 26 October 2023
Braverman facing legal challenge over asylum-seeker ‘segregation’ in prison-like sites
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THE HOME Office faces a legal challenge over its practice of keeping asylum-seekers in “segregation” at prison-like facilities.

Lawyers for refugee charity Care4Calais have sent a pre-action protocol letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

They accuse her of failing to fulfil her legal obligations under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by detaining asylum-seekers at sites such as the former RAF base at Wethersfield, Essex.

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