Tortured Asylum Seekers

EDM number 376 in 2007-08, proposed by Timothy Farron on 26/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Asylum, Crimes of violence and Human rights.

That this House expresses concern at the detention of asylum seekers who have been tortured; and calls upon the Home Department to reform the asylum system to allow new arrivals in detention with a history of torture to be quickly identified and released, to reaffirm its commitment to detain asylum seekers who have been tortured only in `exceptional circumstances' to introduce pre-screening medical checks to identify torture survivors before they are detained and to end the present standard practice of detaining unsuccessful asylum applicants together with foreign national prisoners facing deportation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.