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A refugee charity urged the government yesterday to end the imprisonment of young asylum-seekers whose age is disputed.
There were a number of unaccompanied children still being imprisoned as they were wrongly thought to be adults, despite the government's 2010 pledge to end child detention, the Refugee Council said.
Last year the charity secured the release of 36 young people found in detention who had been wrongly assessed to be adults.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
