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Ministers stay silent on Dungavel reports

HOLYROOD ministers continued yesterday to avoid answering questions about young people detained in a controversial immigration holding facility in Lanarkshire.

Following the release of two damning reports by prisons and education inspectors into Dungavel immigration removal centre, The Herald again asked the first minister, his cabinet and the Scottish secretary, for their views on the issue...

Rosie Kane, Scottish Socialist MSP, said: "Now we can see why the Ay family was deported to Germany without any kind of documentation and without the German authorities being informed, the Home Office knew that under no circumstances could the Ay children still be held in Dungavel when this report was released.

"The Ay family paid the price for the catalogue of human rights abuses that are documented in this report, they had to be disappeared or the position of the Home Office and the very existence of Dungavel would become untenable." The Herald

Detention of refugee children 'must end'

Ms Blears said the government would consider the report carefully.

But the Scottish Socialist MSP Rosie Kane said the government must act immediately.

"The call has to be for all children in there and their families to be released," she said. "Let's hope from this we can start treating people humanely throughout the country." The Guardian

Asylum centres 'not for children' BBC

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Dungavel Report