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TWO MEN who were abused by G4S staff at a notorious immigration detention centre won the first stage of their legal battle for an independent public inquiry today.
One, identified only as MA, who suffers from a “serious mental illness which was exacerbated” in detention, claims he was unlawfully held for 98 days between March and June last year, the High Court heard.
During this time, he was “subjected to intentional assaults, humiliation and degradation” by officers at Brook House immigration detention centre.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
