Report identifies numerous breaches of human rights laws relating to torture and inhuman treatment
Tue 19 Sep 2023 07.10 EDT
The first public inquiry into abuses at a UK immigration detention centre has identified a “toxic culture” and numerous breaches of human rights laws relating to torture and inhuman or degrading treatment, as well as racist, derogatory language used by some staff towards detainees.
The inquiry calls for sweeping changes to immigration detention including the introduction of a 28-day time limit.
The 711-page Brook House inquiry report, published on Tuesday after more than three years of investigation, was ordered by the former home secretary Priti Patel, after BBC’s Panorama broadcast undercover footage of violence against and abuse of vulnerable detainees at Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport during a five-month period between April and August 2017.
The report has identified 19 instances where the inquiry chair, Kate Eves, found “credible evidence” of acts or omissions, which were capable of amounting to…
