Child asylum seekers 'denied food and medicine'
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-asylum-seekers-denied-food-and-medicine...
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Tim Moynihan reports on allegations made by the Refugee and Migrant Justice group that state child asylum seekers in Dover were denied food and medicine by the UK Border Agency "before they complete "oppressive" interviews".
The article examples one case were a child injured in a bomb blast with recent stab wounds (along with another child with gun shot wounds) were detained and interviewed with no offer of medical aid for their injury's.
""Their welcome is an interview by the UK Border Agency that often puts welfare at risk and is used to gather information which is later used against them. Such interviews, carried out without any independent adult or legal representative present, and sometimes without the right interpreters, would be entirely unacceptable anywhere else in Britain. Children should not be treated in this way."
The UK Border Agency deny the claims, while RMJ say they've been raising concerns of child welfare with the agency for over 12 months.
The article examples one case were a child injured in a bomb blast with recent stab wounds (along with another child with gun shot wounds) were detained and interviewed with no offer of medical aid for their injury's.
""Their welcome is an interview by the UK Border Agency that often puts welfare at risk and is used to gather information which is later used against them. Such interviews, carried out without any independent adult or legal representative present, and sometimes without the right interpreters, would be entirely unacceptable anywhere else in Britain. Children should not be treated in this way."
The UK Border Agency deny the claims, while RMJ say they've been raising concerns of child welfare with the agency for over 12 months.
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