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DEPORTEES are being tied up for as long as 14 hours on Home Office-chartered flights that are “reminiscent of the days of slavery,” a watchdog report reveals today.
The findings follow an HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) probe into a night-time Operation Majestic flight from Birmingham to Nigeria and Ghana on March 26.
One man was found to have been tied up for 14 hours and deported to the Nigerian city of Lagos despite telling British border guards that he had swallowed a blade.
A US air strike in north-west Nigeria, publicly framed as a Christmas act of counterterrorism, reveals a deeper shift in how power is exercised in Africa, argues RAIS NEZA BONEZA
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
