“The Home Office treated me like an animal in a cage”
A former BID client writes for The Big Issue on the High Court ruling that the Home Office failed to protect vulnerable migrants in detention.
Last week, the High Court ruled that the Home Office failed to protect vulnerable migrants in detention. Our former client, writing in The Big Issue, shares a powerful firsthand account of the inhumane treatment they experienced and witnessed.
"This High Court ruling confirms what those of us who have lived through detention already know: the system is broken. Vulnerable people are ignored, medical care is inadequate, legal safeguards exist only on paper, and despair is used to force people out of the UK. Until detention is ended, people will continue to be broken physically, mentally, and emotionally, only for the majority to be released back into the community traumatised."
