RAF Wethersfield: High Court makes judgement
Today, the High Court found that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully by accommodating three vulnerable asylum seekers at a containment site at RAF Wethersfield.
Mental health crisis unfolds at RAF Wethersfield Mass Containment Site: Doctors of the World and Médecins Sans Frontières call for urgent site closure
Doctors of the World and Médecins Sans Frontières are issuing an urgent call to the UK government to close mass asylum camp, due to severe mental health crises among people accommodated at the site.
Doctors of the World statement on High Court case on the use of military site as asylum accommodation.
Today the High Court will hear a challenge, taken by four people seeking asylum in the UK who have been accommodated in RAF Wethersfield, to Home Secretary’s use of the controversial military site as asylum accommodation.
Doctors of the World at UK mass asylum containment site
Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK, have launched a new service, providing primary healthcare to people seeking asylum who are accommodated at the former RAF site in Wethersfield, Essex. The service is run in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), This collaboration marks the first time MSF has extended its reach to those seeking asylum in the UK.