The Appellant was a citizen of Sierra Leone and member of the Temne tribe. His evidence was that his father had been involved in politics in 1977 to 1982, and that HK had been attacked by members of the Mende tribe on this account.
According to a Home Office “snapshot” in September 2005, 2,220 men, women and children who had claimed asylum were indefinitely detained in 10 “removal centres” around the UK.
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