UK’s ‘one in, one out’ scheme has failed to protect torture survivors, says charity

A UK Border Force vessel brings people into Dover port who were intercepted crossing the Channel. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

The Home Office has been accused of failing to protect survivors of trafficking and torture detained as part of the government’s “one in, one out” scheme.

Medical Justice, a charity that sends independent clinicians into immigration detention centres, has surveyed 33 detainees waiting to be returned to France by the Home Office in a new report, the first to assess the welfare of this group of detainees.