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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I made the biggest mistake': the young Yemeni men lured into the Russian army with empty promises

I'm Yemeni myself. I have reported on war for the BBC for years, including on my own country's long collapse. But nothing prepared me for what I would learn while investigating Russia's recruitment of foreign fighters: the precision with which vulnerability is targeted; how promises are tailored to poverty; how citizenship becomes bait; how families are left to grieve in the dark.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Home Office fails to protect vulnerable migrants, high court judge rules

Home Office failed to protect vulnerable migrants in detention, causing unlawful systemic risks of inhuman and degrading treatment and inadequate health-based safeguards.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Vulnerable migrants routinely handcuffed and detained for hours, damning report finds

Vulnerable migrants held in UK detention centres are routinely being handcuffed, with some detained for hours, a damning report has found. Examples of unnecessary force included a 70-year-old small and frail man being handcuffed during a hospital visit, despite having no history of being disruptive, and another man subjected to rigid bar cuffs, a waist-restraint belt, as well as thigh and ankle restraints, for over four and a half hours.
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