detainees' own interests and wishes as regards anonymity de ooserved detendon contres should be opened up to independent reporters and researchers.
21. We are most concerned that the fourfold increase under this government of the use of detention appears to have been driven in part by the interests of commercial companies offering to build and/or run detention centres. See Christine Bacon: The Evolution of Immigration Detention in the UK: The Involvement of Private Prison Companies, working paper 27, RSC, Oxford; also VOICES II, introduction).
Furthermore, companies are awarded contracts here when they have been heavily criticised for their operations both here and in other parts of the world.
23. Given the foreign nationality and the ethnicity ol asylum aclamnees, lue Calalogue of injustices in this areawhen compared with what faces other residents of the UK-amount to a svstematic practice of racial discrimination by the state.
24. In terms of the combinanon or the numbers of asylum seekers detained, the lack of judicial oversight, and the duration of detention, the UK's practice in the matter of detaining asylum seekers is among the worst. it not the
the European WULOL, Union.
Recommendation: That the Joint Committee Human Rights should declare that government policy on detention of asylum seekers is incompatible with exercising the recognition of human rights. Tragically while the Home Office is removing asylum seekers to whom they have refused protection to Iraq, in recent weeks it has become clear that a new wave of people are leaving their homes in Iraq - driven out by the policies of the US, Britain and their allies in the Iraqi government.
Thousands of people have left Baghdad, fleeing the suicide bombers and the death squads. Some have relocated elsewhere in Iraq, or moved to Kurdistan; others have left Iraq altogether. Many people are also fleeing Northern Iraq, the place which the Home Office is determined to return people to from Britain.
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