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Tories ‘illegally’ held refugees at squalid barracks
Campaigners call for closure of camp after judge rules in favour of six residents
Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent

THE Home Office’s decision to force asylum-seekers to live in squalid and overcrowded ex-army barracks during the pandemic was unlawful, the High Court ruled today. 

The damning ruling found that conditions at Napier Barracks in Folkestone were inadequate and that the process of allocating asylum-seekers to the site was flawed and unlawful.

For a period of time residents were also falsely imprisoned at the barracks under the pretext of Covid restrictions, the court ruled. 

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