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The Latest Breaking News from Manston

Manston asylum centre was ‘overcrowded, squalid and insanitary’, inquiry hears

Extent to which conditions deteriorated at Kent detention centre in 2022 is being investigated in public hearing

The Guardian - UK

UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners

People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry into conditions at Manston asylum centre has stalled, critics say

Lawyers acting for some of those unlawfully detained in appalling conditions at site in 2022 call for end to delays

The Guardian - UK

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‘People sleeping while walking’: inside Manston asylum centre in Kent

Six staff members speak of new arrivals’ exhaustion and ill-health and colleagues’ indifference to their plight

The Guardian - UK

Home Office memo reveals Johnson and Sunak may have to give evidence at Manston migrant centre inquiry

Former prime ministers, home secretaries and senior civil servants listed as potential witnesses to inquiry into chaos at Manston migrant processing centre in autumn 2022

The Independent UK

Home Office upgrades inquiry into Kent immigration centre after legal challenge

Asylum seekers formerly held at Manston will get funded legal representation at inquiry after challenging Home Office decision

The Guardian - UK

Racial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: asylum seekers tell of brutal conditions at Manston migrant centre

Asylum seekers who fled to UK to escape persecution said they endured abuse and squalor at centre in Kent

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Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre

Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detained

The Guardian - UK

Home Office urged to settle asylum claims over unlawful detention

Ministers may face hefty bill in more than 100 cases related to Manston processing centre

The Guardian - UK

Children’s watchdog to look into young asylum seekers’ treatment at Manston

Rachel de Souza to visit processing facility in Kent as source claims Home Office guidelines are not being followed there

The Guardian - UK

Home Office will spend £700m on small boats plan, contracts reveal

Labour says spending plan shows government ‘doesn’t believe Sunak’s Rwanda plan is going to work’

The Independent UK

Home Office spent £1,500 ‘redecorating’ migrant detention centre where children’s cartoons painted over

Cost revealed for works at previously ‘bright and cheerful’ Manston processing centre

The Independent UK

Home Office paying for thousands of empty beds reserved for asylum seekers

Government keeps ‘buffer’ of 5,000 beds to avoid repeat of overcrowding seen at Manston last year

The Guardian - UK

Manston asylum centre could be overwhelmed again, watchdog says

Chief inspector of immigration says there is ‘real danger’ that inhumane and dangerous conditions will return at Kent facility

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The Independent UK

Asylum seekers could be housed on cruise ships awaiting scrapheap, Braverman suggests

Home secretary says ‘nothing is excluded’ as government tries to reduce use of hotels

Wales Online

Hundreds of asylum seekers detained illegally at immigration removal centres, reports say

The detention of between 450 and 500 migrants held as "overflow" from the Manston processing centre in November was described as "no longer legal"

The Independent UK

Hundreds of migrants ‘detained illegally at immigration removal centres’

Overflow of migrants held at Manston site was described as ‘no longer legal’, Home Office emails reveal

The Independent UK

Fresh cases of diphtheria reported at Manston asylum centre

A total of 161 migrants were intercepted by the UK authorities crossing the Channel in 14 boats on Thursday.

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The Guardian - UK

Charities call for Windrush-style inquiry into Manston asylum failings

Letter from 44 charities urges independent investigation into ‘appalling’ treatment of people at Kent processing centre

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers with diphtheria symptoms to be isolated amid rise in cases

It comes after Home Secretary Suella Braverman faced criticism about overcrowding and outbreaks of disease at the Manston processing centre.

Daily Mirror

Diphtheria risk for public 'very low' despite cases rising among asylum seekers

By November 10, the UK Health Security Agency had identified 39 diphtheria cases among asylum seekers in England this year so far, and the number is understood to have risen to about 50

The Guardian - UK

Child asylum seekers detained as adults after UK Home Office ‘alters birth dates’

Unaccompanied child refugees describe attacks in notorious Manston camp after officials ‘ignore or discount’ ID documents

The Guardian - UK

Man being processed at Manston detention centre in Kent dies

Home Office confirms person who arrived in UK on small boat a week ago was taken ill and later died

The Independent UK

What is the Manston asylum centre?

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but struggled with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

The Guardian - UK

Former Manston asylum seeker sleeping rough pleads for place to stay

Mamlye, 27, is one of about 40 people driven out of asylum centre last week and left to fend for themselves

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