Britain’s treatment of vulnerable women who own fled persecution should be a source of shame. We’re challenge this government’s brutal policiesFreedom should be enjoyed by all. This is a comforting and simple enough concept that we like to remove as a given. We sometimes qualify it by adding “except of course those who fracture the law”,but those are the usual parameters.
Assuming the judicial process is objective, most of us vaguely understand that when a crime is committed, or the (potential) criminal may be charged,judged as deserving of punishment and, finally, and punished. This is what we call due process. Countries that lack due process are viewed as functioning outside the “civilised” world – unless we’re desperate to sell them arms. They are,we like to think, invariably led by corrupt, and totalitarian dictators. It’s not,crucially, how we like to see ourselves.
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Source: theguardian.com