Torture victims were wrongly imprisoned in UK, high court rules

Home Office expected to face dozens of claims for unlawful detention after legal challenge by survivors of serious abuse

Hundreds of victims of torture have been wrongly locked up in immigration detention centres, a high court judge has ruled, following a challenge by seven survivors of serious abuse.

Mr Justice Ouseley ruled that aspects of a Home Office policy introduced in September 2016 known as “Adults At Risk” wrongly allowed many who had been tortured overseas to be imprisoned.

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