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Charity demands Con-Dems honour child detention vow
Refugee charity urges government to end imprisonment of young asylum-seekers whose age is disputed
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.
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