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@maybulman
Jun 14, 2018 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Thoughts are with everyone who lost their lives in the Grenfell fire on this day a year ago today. An unthinkable tragedy that should never have been allowed to happen. RIP #GrenfellTower Image
At this point a year ago, the tower was still burning.. People on the ground will have been coming to the agonising realisation that their friends and loved ones inside - many of whom had been screaming for their lives - were gone. Can’t get this out of my head #GrenfellTower Image
Now scores of survivors, still suffering from a tramatuic experience most of us will never have to endure, are still displaced and without a home. 72 households are in hotels. Meanwhile, more than 200 council-owned houses lie empty independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… It begs the question: Image
.@HackneyAbbott told me the tragedy was inextricably linked to what she described as "social apartheid" in North Kensington: “The divide between people on the estate and people living in private sector accommodation is a yawning gulf" independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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Sep 13, 2023
EU president von Der Leyen praises Bulgaria for ‘showcasing best practices on both asylum and returns’

Fails to mention Bulgaria's been illegally locking Syrians, Afghans & others in cages before unlawfully expelling them& in some cases even shooting them ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
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Evidence here:

And here: lighthousereports.com/investigation/…
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Aug 15, 2023
On this day in 2021, Western countries made their chaotic escape from Afghanistan as the Taliban took power

They knowingly left behind tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives to support the West’s mission

They promised to get them out later - yet so many remain
Wherever possible, western govts are looking for reasons not to help Afghans or to delay the process. Just a few examples here:



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This has left many Afghans with 3 options:

1, stay and live a life in hiding, at high risk of brutal vengeance by the Taliban

2, leave for nearby countries such as Pakistan/Iran/Turkey, where they face huge discrimination - and deportation

3, risk their lives to reach Europe
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Jan 6, 2023
On this day last year, the Home Office’s Afghan resettlement scheme (ACRS) opened, promising to resettle 20K Afghans - 5K in its first year

A year on, not one person has been relocated from Afghanistan under the scheme

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On the same day that ACRS opened, HO revealed some Afghans who had ALREADY been evacuated would be included under ‘Pathway 1’ of ACRS

It later emerged this amounted to around 6-7K people - so 1/3 of the total pledged places were wiped out from the start independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
HO said the UNHCR would refer Afghan refugees who had already fled from Afghanistan to the UK under ‘Pathway 2’ of the scheme ‘from Spring (2022)

As of Oct 2022, only FOUR families had arrived under this route, according to govt figures independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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Dec 8, 2022
NEW: European border forces are using secret facilities to systematically detain asylum seekers before illegally deporting them

@LHreports and partners can today reveal a number of these 'black sites' operating along the EU border

One is this derelict cage in Bulgaria:
@LHreports We also discovered shipping containers in Hungary & prison vans in Croatia being routinely used to imprison people & prevent them claiming asylum

Experts call it 'torture'

And we can prove that they’re part funded by the EU, & in some cases operated under the noses of
@Frontex
It comes after we released footage this week of Bulgarian border forces shooting a Syrian refuge

Bulgaria denied it

But our new findings show this is part of a wider system of abuse - reliant on black sites and torture

More here:
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Apr 14, 2022
UK condemned Rwanda for human rights abuses months before signing migration deal

Experts say it's 'ludicrous’ to think people seeking sanctuary in UK can build lives in east African nation, citing human rights abuses and economic issues

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independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
In July 2021 UK’s intnl ambassador for human rights expressed 'regret' that Rwanda wasn't conducting 'credible' investigations into allegations of human rights violations, incl deaths in custody & torture, nor identifying/supporting trafficking victims 2/gov.uk/government/spe…
.@UNHumanright says arbitrary detention, ill-treatment & torture in detention is 'commonplace' in Rwanda and fair trial standards 'routinely flouted'

'Arbitrary detention & mistreatment of street children, sex workers and petty vendors 'occurs widely' 3/ hrw.org/africa/rwanda
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Sep 22, 2021
Watching @CommonsHomeAffs questioning HO perm sec Matthew Rycroft

First Q is why were HO officials pulled from giving evidence to Nationality & Borders Bill Committee yday at last minute

Rycroft says 'plans changed' bc he was speaking to HASC today. Yvette Cooper not satisfied
On newly arrived Afghans in hotels, Rycroft says there are around 7,000 currently. 70 are unaccompanied minors - 16 under age of 16

Social workers and nurses contracted by private companies running the hotels are caring for these children, says 2nd perm sec Patricia Hayes
Asked why some local authorities have homes ready for these Afghans families but they remain empty, Rycroft says they HO is getting a central system in place to start moving people

But he can't give any timetable for how long this will take and how long people will be in hotels
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