detainees

Inspectors find that despite repeated recommendations, some standards of common decency were not met, such as allowing detainees to go to the toilet in private.

Sixteen cross-party MPs and Peers have delivered a letter to the British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to press the Bahraini government to end the abuse of female political prisoners.

The Home Office removals policy enabling it to refuse a migrant’s case and forcibly remove them from the UK within hours has been suspended by a High Court judge.

The Inspector identified a more proportionate use of force as one area of improvement.