Trial over using RAF Wethersfield as asylum accommodation allowed by High Court
THE High Court has granted permission for a challenge to the use of RAF Wethersfield as asylum accommodation to proceed to trial.
Four asylum-seekers issued claims for judicial review against the Home Office after being accommodated at the controversial military site in Essex.
They claim that the Home Office has failed to provide a dignified standard of living and that the conditions and regime at Wethersfield is discriminatory and creates a real risk of a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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