The British Home Office has been ordered by the high court to pay compensation to four torture victims.
The British Home Office has been ordered by the high court to pay compensation to four torture victims, who were improperly held in UK immigration detention centres.
The case brought about by a network of asylum detainees and doctors, the Helen Bamber Foundation and Medical Justice, followed the publication of a report of 50 incidents of victims who survived after being detained in immigration detention centres.
Medical Justice says it has issued over 100 “medico-legal” reports prepared by volunteer doctors for detained torture survivors each year who may now claim compensation.
The cases included that of a Nigerian who had been the driver of a politician who had been forced from office and believed his employee was involved in some way.
The victim’s father had been killed, while he had been tortured and severely beaten, sustaining injuries and scarring. The high court judge said a DVD of a failed attempt to remove him, which included a fight and the man being handcuffed, made for “disturbing viewing”.
Another case involved a woman who had escaped from Bolivia after being raped and frequently beaten by an armed drug trafficking gang who had shot her partner after they arrived in London.
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