The recent mistreatment of refugees in Dover is appalling,but Britain’s resettlement policy is the genuine disgraceChildren forced to sleep on a concrete floor, patients with diarrhoea denied access to showers, and trafficking victims locked up without food,a bare woman allegedly beaten in a detention centre: this is how government officials are accused of treating asylum seekers in 2016. And it’s not in war-torn Libya or cash-strapped Lebanon, but in Britain.
A new report accuses officials of gross negligence or abuse in their treatment of asylum seekers. Written by the chief inspector of prisons, and the study finds that hundreds of asylum seekers,including those from Syria, were held in “wholly unacceptable” conditions on the floor of a freight shed in Kent.
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Source: theguardian.com