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Today, Women for Refugee Women releases new research finding that the Home Office is harming vulnerable Chinese women who have been trafficked to the UK by routinely locking them up for long periods of time in detention.
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The number of Chinese women locked up in detention centres has doubled since 2016. Over the last year we have spoken to 40 Chinese women locked up at Yarl's Wood, most of whom had survived trafficking into sexual exploitation or forced labour.
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By locking up survivors of trafficking, the Home Office is flouting its own policies. New @AfterExpProject figures corroborate our research, showing this problem is widespread. In 2018, the HO detained 507 people it accepted may have been trafficked.
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My name is Agnes. I am an asylum seeker, I am a woman, I am a human being.
Please share my story using #SetHerFree
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I had spent 55 years of my life in my country, but then I was forced to come to the UK. I never expected to leave my country – I love my country, I had a job, I was married. But I was forced to come here to save my life.
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In November 2010, my country descended into civil war and in 2011, the rebels won the war. I was arrested and taken to prison with the President and his family. The UN released some prisoners and I was among them.
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My name is Mariam and I am seeking safety in the UK. Please share my story using #SetHerFree
I had to flee from Somalia because I belonged to a minority tribe that was suffering war and rape. We fled to Kenya, but it was not safe for us there either and I ended up being taken to the UK.
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I had never left my home country before. Coming to the UK was a whole new world for me. I thought I would be safe because the travel took a long time so I knew I was going far away from the problems and I would now be far away from my perpetrators.
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Welcome to the @4refugeewomen takeover of the @EverydaySexism account! Tonight three women will share their stories of what it is like to be locked up in immigration detention.
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Near Bedford, on an industrial estate that was a former military research facility, there is a detention centre for women called #YarlsWood.
Here, over 1500 women who have come to the UK to escape persecution are locked up each year.
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Here, over 1500 women who have come to the UK to escape persecution are locked up each year.
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There is no time limit on immigration detention in the UK, so women can be locked up for weeks, months or even years.
The UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on detention. This is a human rights scandal.
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The UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on detention. This is a human rights scandal.
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