Private security guards criticised for tying up migrants on deportation flight
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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.
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