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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Charities call for windrush style inquiry into manston asylum failings - You Need To See This

People stand inside a fenced-off area inside the migrant processing centre in Manston
Cramped and insanitary conditions at Manston risked the health of refugees and Home Office staff, say the charities. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

Suella Braverman, the home secretary, is being urged by 44 leading charities to launch a Windrush-style inquiry into the crisis that engulfed Manston processing centre.

Organisations including the Refugee Council, Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee have written a letter to the Guardian seeking an independent investigation into how people seeking refuge in the UK were forced to live in cramped and insanitary conditions.

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