A prison installed on a ship contracted by the United Kingdom government to ‘imprison’ 500 migrants whose crime is being refugees and having requested asylum, has aroused another great controversy among human rights activists and an important part of civil society. British in the face of what is considered, as commented on Twitter, “a dystopia in which a government like the British locked people in a floating prison.”
This ship is privately owned in the same way that its exploitation, “a lucrative business for its owners”, they add from the networks. She is already in the Port of Portland, off the British southwest coast.
The migration policy of the United Kingdom thus gives a twist in the journey that Boris Johnson began when he announced the shipment of asylum seekers who arrived through the English Channel, to Rwanda. According to various international media reports, the boat has a capacity for 200 people, but will house some 500 migrants.
The barge arrived in England on Tuesday after the government passed its bill to curb migration. It has three floors and was built in 1976. The Netherlands already used it two decades ago to house immigrants.
Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government justifies it as a cheaper alternative to staying in hotels for which it spends 6 million pounds a day. Those who oppose this initiative, civil society and humanitarian organizations, define the ship as a floating prison in the sea and assure that in this prison “numerous violations of human rights are committed, and that it is a very lucrative business for members of the bourgeoisie”. .
2023-07-20 10:00:17
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