Today, Women for Refugee Women releases new research finding that the Home Office is harming vulnerable Chinese women who have been trafficked to the UK by routinely locking them up for long periods of time in detention.

#SetHerFree

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The number of Chinese women locked up in detention centres has doubled since 2016. Over the last year we have spoken to 40 Chinese women locked up at Yarl's Wood, most of whom had survived trafficking into sexual exploitation or forced labour.
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
By locking up survivors of trafficking, the Home Office is flouting its own policies. New @AfterExpProject figures corroborate our research, showing this problem is widespread. In 2018, the HO detained 507 people it accepted may have been trafficked.
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Our director @natasha_walter says: "These women have suffered extreme abuse & exploitation & do not receive the support & protection that is promised in policies. Instead, they are locked up & threatened with deportation. This situation must change now."

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
One woman said, “The gang leaders forced me to have sex with men who would come to the house where I was imprisoned. Then one day men in uniforms came to the house. They took me to Yarl’s Wood. I was taken from one hell to another.”
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thenational.scot/news/17757082.…
Our research builds upon that of other charities, including @DetentionAction & @JRSUK, that shows that the Home Office is routinely detaining survivors of trafficking.
All of the women in our sample were detained for >1 month, and 4 of them for over 6 months. #ItsTime4aTimeLimit
92% of asylum-seeking women from China in detention are not removed from the UK but released to continue with their asylum claims. Other than deliberate harm, their detention serves no purpose.

It's time to #SetHerFree.

refugeewomen.co.uk/hell
One of the women, who was detained at Yarl's Wood after being encountered by police while working in a brothel, was eventually released back to the address where she had been forced into prostitution.

Absolute disregard for a vulnerable woman's safety.

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
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