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Sile Reynolds 🧡

@Sile79

Head of Asylum Advocacy @FreefromTorture. Interests are asylum & international refugee protection, human rights. All views are personal.

London, England Katılım Kasım 2010
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Our new report exposes the true reasons torture survivors and refugees arrive in the UK & proposes some alternative solutions to save lives and preserve access to refugee protection Read the report now.... freedomfromtorture.org/why-torture-su…
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FfT's new report, 'A Place to Heal' centres the voices of those in asylum housing & exposes the devastating harm it causes to survivors. The solutions are simple: ✅Better quality & faster asylum decisions to manage numbers ✅ Locally-tailored, well-resourced housing
Freedom from Torture🧡@FreefromTorture

This morning, we appeared in @DailyMirror exposing the reality of the UK’s asylum accommodation: Asylum hotels are awful places to live for people fleeing torture. We didn’t rely on them to house asylum seekers 5 years ago – so why is our govt using them? mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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We are watching concept of refugee family reunion, built on principle of sanctity of family, importance of family unit to enable integration & opportunity to rescue refugees directly from danger, being cynically spun into politically expedient 'pull factor' exploited by smugglers
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New immigration rules will be published this week to temporarily suspend any new applications under Refugee Family Reunion route until a new scheme can be brought in. Refugees will be covered by the conditions and rules that apply to everyone else.
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Cooper will shortly be providing a statement to parliament on her plans for asylum reform, including changes that restrict access to refugee family reunion and speeding up processing of asylum appeals parliamentlive.tv/Commons
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Have just heard from Chris Murray MP that Home Affairs Select Committee will publish the report of their inquiry into asylum accommodation shortly. @FreefromTorture provided evidence to the committee of the harmful impact of hotels on survivors of torture in UK asylum system
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No real update on hotel closures except to say that they must all be closed.
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🧵Yesterday a good e.g. of the danger of the politics of 'can't'. If Govt want to effectively challenge Reform policies the worst approach is to say 'we can't do them' - instead set out why your alternative better & make positive case for things you might believe in like ECHR
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@sianushka @RestIsPolitics @FreefromTorture @haoussou @ntunasi I get what they’re trying to say: people who torture aren’t monsters but fellow humans & none of us should feel complacent about the risk that such horrors might reach closer to home. But I hardly think succumbing to pressure to ‘be part of the team’ is where the buck stops.
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@Sile79 @RestIsPolitics @FreefromTorture @haoussou @ntunasi Completely ridiculous just to focus on individual perps when the torture is an instrument of the state, and therefore functioning for the state! I dunno, there seems to be a lot of things those 2 claim to know and fail to reckon with...
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When asked what drives people to abandon their principles & humanity & engage in torture @RoryStewartUK & @campbellclaret focus on responsibility of individual perpetrators rather than a political & social environment in which torture is permitted @FreefromTorture @aaliyahmburns
The Rest Is Politics@RestIsPolitics

Question Time: Assad’s People - Torture, Justice, and Forgiveness New episode alert 🚨 This week on Question Time @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret discuss: 🇸🇾 What drives someone to torture 📰 The latest in Gaza 🇬🇪 Democracy under threat in Georgia and Venezuela ...and much more. Tune in now 👇 lnk.to/TheRestIsPolit…

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Some helpful clarifications from Home Sec Yvette Cooper's appearance before Home Affairs Select Cttee on Monday: the immigration White Paper coming in new year will focus on reform of labour migration routes to UK & enforcement on illegal working parliamentlive.tv/event/index/bf…
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Home Affairs Cttee just launched an inquiry into asylum accommodation. This is such an important inquiry at a critical time in the life of the current contracts. @FreefromTorture & @SSOonline will be putting in our evidence of the impact of asylum housing on survivors of torture
Home Affairs Committee@CommonsHomeAffs

We have launched an inquiry into asylum accommodation. We are examining: ✅ how asylum accommodation is currently delivered ✅ what needs to change as the Government seeks to reset its approach to asylum accommodation Find out more via the link in the reply.

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Tho it was accepted that people on DG needed in-person assessment by medical experts these hadn't been facilitated & so protection claims stalled. The reason behind this was a HO concern that allowing experts to visit might set precedent for Rwanda scheme: tinyurl.com/48f26kw3
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