{"id":12940,"date":"2018-01-28T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12940"},"modified":"2018-01-28T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T19:38:26","slug":"uks-may-faces-revolt-over-detention-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/uks-may-faces-revolt-over-detention-of-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s May faces revolt over detention of immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government of Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a revolt by Conservative MPs over the indefinite detention of immigrants in Britain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two former cabinet ministers have expressed their readiness to stop a controversial method blamed for inflicting mental breakdown on immigrant inmates, who have\u00a0not been charged with any crime and given no release date, according to The Independent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Britain has come under harsh criticism for being the only EU country that has no statutory time limit for detaining immigrants, including by the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n

Survivors of torture, trafficking and rape are among the tens of thousands of people held in overcrowded centers for months, or even years.<\/p>\n

According to a recent investigation, there have been \u201cwidespread self-harm and attempted suicides\u201d in such places.<\/p>\n

Now campaigners argue a looming immigration bill provides a new opportunity for MPs to pass an amendment in order to impose a strict 28-day limit.<\/p>\n

Andrew Mitchell, a\u00a0former International Development Secretary, told The Independent,<\/em>\u00a0\u201cI am warm towards this proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to hold people in detention indefinitely,\u201d added Mitchell, who has described indefinite detention as a \u201cstain on our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that what is even worse is that \u201cwhen we have held people wrongly indefinitely, is that we have to use taxpayers\u2019 money to get the government off the hook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, Caroline Spelman, a former Tory Environment Secretary, described the new bill as an \u201copportunity to act.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see Britain use methods that have proven to be effective in other countries \u2013 such as Sweden,\u201d Spelman added.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Unionist Party, which is supporting May in power, might also exert pressure on the government over the controversy.<\/p>\n

Two of its 10 MPs, Gavin Robinson and Jim Shannon, have signed a Parliamentary motion demanding \u201ca 28-day time limit and greater use of community-based alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of a time limit destroys mental health. Self-harm, suicide attempts and deaths are common. This is state-sanctioned suffering on a vast scale,\u201d said Martha Spurrier, the director of the civil liberties group Liberty.<\/p>\n

Britain detains nearly 30,000 people each year in the centers, holding several hundred for longer than one year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government of Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a revolt by Conservative MPs over the indefinite detention of immigrants in Britain. Two former cabinet ministers have expressed their readiness to stop a controversial method blamed for inflicting mental breakdown on immigrant inmates, who have\u00a0not been charged with any crime and given no release date, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12940\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}