DocArchive: Assignment: Unlawful Detention

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DATE : Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:38:00 +0000
Entered in Database : 2010-02-11 12:38:00
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Every year thousands of asylum seekers are detained in Britain. They are held while the Home Office decides whether to grant their claim for asylum or to remove them from the country. Its part of what is supposed to be a faster and more effective system for dealing with asylum. But there are claims that the government is routinely breaching its own guidelines -- and detaining vulnerable asylum seekers unlawfully. Rob Walker investigates for Assignment.

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