Refugees win illegal detention case

Human rights lawyer Moseki
Human rights lawyer Moseki

FRANCISTOWN: Rejected asylum seekers, those awaiting asylum, former refugees declared prohibited immigrants and school-going children have prevailed against Government following their unlawful detention at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants (FCII).

The petitioners’ attorney, Morgan Moseki had filed an urgent application before Justice Zibani Makhwade saying that many of the detainees have been held at the centre for as long as seven years without a word from their custodians.

“…The more pathetic one is of the inhumane conduct of keeping children of school-going age locked up with their parents without being afforded education, which moulds a person.  What kind of society would do that to people who ran away from troubled and conflict-ridden nations thinking we would provide a safe haven for them and we only turn out to be the villains?” Moseki said.

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