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Sonya Sceats 🧡
@SonyaSceats
Chief Executive @FreefromTorture. Originally an American, now an Australian in London. Own views. "Torture is the ultimate red line".
May 15, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Home Office chief responds to that devastating long read by @trillingual.

The two pieces capture the central schizophrenia of pledges to become more humane after #Windrush while dialing up hate against asylum seekers in service of the Conservative re-election strategy. We see this schizophrenia every day in our dealings with Home Office leaders.

I don't doubt the sincerity of their commitment to implement lessons from the #Windrush review.
Oct 11, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Hate against asylum seekers and the lawyers who defend them is escalating.

Let’s take a look at how @pritipatel and @BorisJohnson have responded. May: Farage starts his vigil of hate in Dover.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Oct 9, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
TORTURE IS THE ULTIMATE RED LINE.

Boris Johnson is trying to cross it.

Please stand with @FreefromTorture @SSOonline in our relentless bid to stop the #OverseasOperationsBill.

Here is why 👇🏼 The Bill cleared the Commons but we're working around the clock with allies to ensure its most odious features are addressed by the Committees & the Lords.
Oct 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Home Secretary’s 'dangerous' rhetoric against lawyers 'is what you see in patterns of abusive behaviour by states around the world’

Creeping authoritarianism in Britain rolls on. They are targeting the immigration lawyers, but they won’t stop there. theguardian.com/global-develop… This is not just about headlines.

It’s part of a deliberate Number 10 strategy to wind back civil liberties for all of us, under cover of “border control”.

Attacks on judicial review have already started. Next comes the Human Rights Act. Then withdrawal from the ECHR.