The unilateral release of 290 detainees, including 42 survivors of an attack on a place of detention in Dhamar this month, took place on 30 September 2019.
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.
Some of the most vociferous critics of the prison-like feel of the centre were the staff who worked there and who, on the whole, did a very good job of looking after detainees with decency and care.
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.