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The UK is already the only country in Western Europe to apply indefinite detention. Rather than most people who are detained who count down to their release, migrants have to count up with no idea when they may be released. That takes a severe physical and mental toll. 1/
Now, instead of tackling this costly and inhumane process Priti Patel is looking to bring in new policies which are likely to exacerbate the issue and leave many asylum seekers living in limbo. Offshoring doesn't change this, it just shifts it somewhere else. 2/
Imagine that you had fled persecution. You have been have multiple challenges as you try and find somewhere you feel safe enough to attempt to rebuild your life, and instead of being supported you are locked up with no idea when you may be released. 3/
My name is Mariam and I am seeking safety in the UK. Please share my story using #SetHerFree 
I had to flee from Somalia because I belonged to a minority tribe that was suffering war and rape. We fled to Kenya, but it was not safe for us there either and I ended up being taken to the UK.
#SetHerFree
#SetHerFree
I had never left my home country before. Coming to the UK was a whole new world for me. I thought I would be safe because the travel took a long time so I knew I was going far away from the problems and I would now be far away from my perpetrators.
#SetHerFree
#SetHerFree
Welcome to the @4refugeewomen takeover of the @EverydaySexism account! Tonight three women will share their stories of what it is like to be locked up in immigration detention.
Join the conversation by using #SetHerFree
Join the conversation by using #SetHerFree
Near Bedford, on an industrial estate that was a former military research facility, there is a detention centre for women called #YarlsWood.
Here, over 1500 women who have come to the UK to escape persecution are locked up each year.
#SetHerFree
Here, over 1500 women who have come to the UK to escape persecution are locked up each year.
#SetHerFree
There is no time limit on immigration detention in the UK, so women can be locked up for weeks, months or even years.
The UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on detention. This is a human rights scandal.
#SetHerFree #Time4aTimeLimit
The UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on detention. This is a human rights scandal.
#SetHerFree #Time4aTimeLimit
Please read this by @helenlewis
Have literally spent all of this morning working on a case like the one she speaks of. Yarl's Wood is a terrible place for vulnerable women
Have literally spent all of this morning working on a case like the one she speaks of. Yarl's Wood is a terrible place for vulnerable women
2/ By the way, I don't think the answer is to shut down all Immigration Removal Centres. I don't think any European state has no immigration detention. But the UK remains the *only* state in Europe to have no limit on the length of time a person can be detained for removal
3/ That is the villain in this piece - although centres themselves are also terribly run. But if there was e.g. a 3-month time limit then it would hugely focus minds and ensure that people aren't just left to rot fo years or literally forgotten about for months as can happen
