Wednesday, 4 January 2017

A teenage boy from Afghanistan threatens to commit suicide in a UK Home Office detention centre

Afghan teenager threatens to kill himself in UK prison

A teenager from Afghanistan has pledged to murder himself in a dentention facility in a confinement close to Gatwick air terminal instead of be coercively deported back to Afghanistan, where he says he will be slaughtered by the Taliban.

Idress Wazeer, 18, has twice endeavoured to take his own particular life since being confined by the Home Office in Brook House immigration evacuation centre a month ago and told that he would be coercively expelled from the UK whenever in within 30 days.

Wazeer touched base in the UK when he was 14, in the wake of escaping oppression by the Taliban, and guaranteed refuge. He says the Taliban assaulted him and shot him in the leg, leaving an assortment of scars on his body, and that his family were slaughtered by the Taliban in light of work his sibling accomplished for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) objected to by the Taliban.

But the Home Office authorities question his age and say he was 16 when he landed in the UK.

Wazeer said: “I am very scared about being sent back to Afghanistan. I am determined to kill myself rather than be forced back to my country. The Taliban killed my mum, my dad and my brother and I’m not going to let them kill me, too.”

He included: “I’m so depressed that I can’t eat and can’t sleep. I’m very frightened about what’s going to happen to me. I’m too young to deal with all this.”

He first endeavoured to murder himself was on Christmas Eve while in his stay with kindred prisoner Michele Terzaghi, an Italian.

The caution was which brought medical aid to him. He was then taken to a part of the wing called the care and partition room where he was kept under consistent supervision for 24 hours before being discharged back to the room he occupies with Terzaghi.

He made a moment endeavor on 30 December, yet again Terzaghi mediated. Again Wazeer was taken to the care and division space for 24 hours.

Terzaghi communicated worry about Wazeer's welfare and said he feels damaged from seeing the two endeavours he made to take his life.

“I was frozen with fear when I saw Idress trying to [kill] himself. I was pressing the emergency buzzer and kept thinking to myself: ‘What happens if he dies now?’ This guy is absolutely petrified. He has bullet wounds on his leg from where the Taliban shot him. He considers himself to be British and it’s very overwhelming for him to be taken back to somewhere he considers to be hell.”

Wazeer's better half, 20, who requested not be named, additionally communicated worry about him. "I have known Idress for quite a long time," she said. "He is extremely defensive of his companions and we are exceptionally defensive of him. He has said to me that 100% he will execute himself instead of backpedal to Afghanistan."

Wazeer asked for a rule 35 report to be done to evaluate regardless of whether he ought to be confined. Survivors of torment are not routinely expected to be confined and rule 35 reports are intended to recognize the most defenceless prisoners.

The Home Office dismisses his rule 35 report. In any case, these reports have been scrutinized as blemished by a scope of individuals and associations including the high court judge Mr Justice Ouseley, who said the reports are not "the effective safeguards they are supposed to be". The deficiencies of these reports have additionally been scrutinized by the home affiares select advisory group and the UN council against torment.

G4S has the agreement to run Brook House. Ben Saunders, chief for Gatwick immigration expulsion focuses, said: “Our team works tirelessly to keep safe those in our care and the most recent report from independent monitors recognised the good work done to support distressed and vulnerable detainees. In this case, on-site healthcare teams provided medical attention and appropriate safeguarding support arrangements were put in place.”

Theresa Schleicher, casework chief for Medical Justice, a philanthropy that attempts to ensure the strength of individuals in confinement, said “We are regularly contacted by vulnerable detainees whose mental health is deteriorating in detention and who are not identified and not released due to ineffective safeguards.

“We are particularly concerned about the new practice of giving ‘open’ notices of removal as has happened in this case where a detainee can be forcibly returned without notice any day during a three-month period. This makes it increasingly difficult for legal representatives and NGOs like us to plan the work we need to do on detainees’ cases.”


According a Home Office spokesman: “We do not routinely comment on individual cases.”

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