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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.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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