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The Home Office sees activists like me as a security threat – and I suspect that is behind its endless bureaucratic delays
Priti Patel. ‘The UN is warning that reforms announced in March risked violating the 1951 Refugee Convention, which Britain helped draft.’ Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
Priti Patel. ‘The UN is warning that reforms announced in March risked violating the 1951 Refugee Convention, which Britain helped draft.’ Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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In 2017, my daughter was born in London without a nationality. She has never owned a passport and cannot leave the country. Her only official form of identification remains her birth certificate. For years, attempts to resolve my daughter’s status appear to have been actively obstructed by the UK government. Unfortunately for my family, as a stateless refugee and vocal human rights activist, the Home Office views me as an enemy.
Bahrain: Detained children abused, threatened with rape and electrocution
A report details how children arrested in protest-related cases have been prosecuted as adults and abused while in detention in the Gulf country
Riot police near the British embassy in Manama prior to an anti-government protest in support of Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, 16 February 2021 (Reuters) By Published date: 10 March 2021 16:15 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks 1 day ago
Police in Bahrain have beaten children who were arrested in protest-related cases last month, and threatened them with rape and electric shocks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed on Wednesday.
According to the rights group, four children remain in detention and are being tried as adults, including a 16-year-old with a serious medical condition.
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