Freedom from Torture Torture has challenged the Home Office to spell out the basis for a claim in the latest asylum statistics issued today that the proportion of asylum appeals dismissed by adjudicators from the Independent Appellate Authority is growing steadily.
The Home Secretary has given an assurance that the Government will not deduct from asylum seekers' allowance the value of toys that charities provide for their children. The problem remains that the Government defines toys as not an "essential living need".
Freedom from Torture, a registered charity that runs the only treatment centre in the United Kingdom dedicated to helping victims of torture, has launched a £4.7m "Under One Roof" appeal for new premises.
MPs have been asked in an Early Day Motion to donate toys to refugee children in a grassroots campaign against new government legislation which will deprive the children of asylum seekers of play things.
Freedom from Torture, third-party intervenors in the Pinochet case, described today's judgement by the Law Lords which gives the former dictator a fresh hearing as "ironic but not unjust."
