Our client, who has lived in the UK for over 20 years since he was a child, shares his story and the abuses he suffered through while detained in prison under immigration powers in prison in response to the Brook House inquiry.

"Immigration officers would come to see me monthly, threatening that if I didn’t sign my deportation paperwork and go back voluntarily, I would stay in prison. I was already at rock bottom – and the only thing I had left to hold on to was the hope of being reunited with my family. I would never give up my right to stay in the UK with them."

Read the full article in The Independent