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A BIPOLAR man in immigration detention was not given his medication for nine weeks despite repeated requests, the High Court heard today.
MA did not receive anti-psychotic medication for 47 days between December 2015 and January 2016 while detained at Campsfield House and Harmondsworth immigration removal centres (IRCs), and a further two weeks between January and February 2016.
His barrister Raza Halim said the consequences were "predictable and predicted," noting: MA suffered "paranoid ideation, auditory [and] visual hallucinations" and also believed he was "being visited at night by armed men who wish to kill him."
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
