| Gay Muslim man tortured with cigarette burns and beatings |
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| Written by Emma Ginn | |
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"A gay man from a Muslim country was repeatedly tortured with cigarette burns and beatings and suffered other significant injuries.
He fled to the UK and was detained at Colnbrook Detention Centre on arrival for an extended period. The detention centre nurses and doctors are required to ask him whether he had been tortured, so that they can inform the Home Office, who can then attempt to comply with their duty only to detain such people only “in very exceptional circumstances.” Until my arrival the Detention Centre had failed to ask him or record the answer as to whether he had been a victim of torture. After this, a nurse recorded his blatant cigarette burns as “shrapnel wounds.” (It is hard to describe to anyone who is not a clinician how difficult it is to confuse the two.) On the basis of a medico-legal report he has been freed and is pursuing a fresh claim for asylum." Dr Frank Arnold MB FRCS |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 January 2008 ) |
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