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Unlawfully-held detainees awarded £18m

The government has paid more than £18m compensation to people held unlawfully in immigration detention in four years, Freedom of Information figures show.
Immigration detention centres hold people the government is trying to deport, including failed asylum seekers and foreign national prisoners.
Most are there for less than two months, but some can be held for many years, in some cases unlawfully.
Catrin Nye reports.

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