Thursday, December 10, 2020

Ireland's shameful treatment of those denied 'leave to land'

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) last month criticised Ireland for the practice of imprisoning foreign nationals who have been refused entry.

It said people should be accommodated in centres 'specifically designed for that purpose."

It comments that a prison is not a suitable pace in which to detain someone who is neither suspected not convicted of a criminal offence.

Sorcha Pollak paints a shocking picture  in the Weekend Review of The Irish Times last Saturday of how Ireland treats people who are refused 'leave to land'.

Fifty people - 43 men and seven women - were held in Irish prisons between March 2 and July 28 after being refused leave to land in Ireland.

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