The United Nations will investigate whether the UK is arbitrarily detaining prisoners and violating the human rights law End the terms of uncertain gel, Independent Can reveal.
The campaigners and their legal teams are starting a landmark complaint on behalf of five men who have served a total of 84 years. Imprisonment for public safety (IPP) Jail conditions, for minor offenses, as highlighted Independent,
Due to the case, United Nations work group on arbitrary detention On Thursday, a bomb letter from the new justice secretary is included David Lammy, Which proves that he agrees that the duration of the gel is a “severe injustice” that causes “only frightening” mental trauma.
The implementation of the letter written in 2021, when he was the Secretary of Justice Justice, says Jail period “Sadly flawed”, saying: “Now it is clearly clear that the IPP sentence was very broad, and many low -risk criminals are serving IPP sentences today to commit minor crimes in the past.”
Although in 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECR) was sentenced after a harmful decision, it was not rebuilt, and the gradual governments have opposed. Call for displeasure More than 2,500 are still dull without release date.
However, after his appointment as the Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister in the last week’s cabinet reshuffle, the campaign group IPP committee has finally called Mr. Lemy to call the abortion of justice properly.
International Human Rights Specialist Dr. Muin Bose told Independent The tenure of the jail was a “national scam” and for the abortion of justice open in the post office scam.
Five tragic cases being sent to the United Nations, which have been exposed by all Independent In the last 18 months, include:
- Leroy Douglas43, who has served about 19 years for mobile phone road robbery
- Abdullahi sulemon42, a laptop is still in jail after 20 years of handing over IPP for robbery
- Sean anton loid39, who were taken back to jail four times and served 12 years for two street robbery, when he was 18 years old
- Vein williams37, has spent more than 19 years in jail without release for a 23 -month jail period for an attempt to injured a police officer in a battle.
- Joshua Macrai Last year died in SAIL, at the age of 34, served over 16 years for four years tariff for serious physical damage
The government will have 60 days to respond to a 30-page complaint on the treatment of five men. Subsequently, the United Nations Working Group will issue an opinion on whether Britain has arbitrarily detained prisoners.
Shirley Debono, who founded the campaign group after her son, Sri Lloyd, was sentenced to an IPP to steal the phone, said: “This is the greatest abortion of justice. Our loved ones are suffering from psychological torture, being arbitrary detained.
“Our government condemns such treatment in China and Russia, yet it is doing the same task in the UK.”
Dr. The mother, who spends one year to compile the complaint with Muin Bose, is due to holding hands in the papers with MPs and campaigners at number 10 on Thursday.
His claim alleges that the open-ended gel is unavoidably flawed in the term and the length of the dislocation of the prisoners has no connection with the original offenses.
This further alleges that England and Wales are violating international law due to mental anguish for prisoners and their families, as 94 prisoners have taken their lives after losing their expectation to be free.
The United Nations special synergy on torture, Dr. Alice Edwards has earlier condemned the conditions of the prison as “psychological torture”.
The complaint also alleged that the UK 2012 is in violation of the ECHR’s decision, resulting in the conviction, many IPP prisoners are still waiting for months to reach the required courses for their release or the chaotic system of delay of parole board.
IPP prisoners will have to prove a parole board that they are no longer the risk of releasing to the public. Subsequently, many people find themselves in a vicious cycle of recall, which can take them back to jail indefinitely for violation of strict license terms.
Dr. of Great James Street Chambers. Bose said that the jail word is “serious abortion of justice” and compared to the post office scam.
“It is shameful for a developed country with such a great legal history before the United Nations,” he said, “He has the courage to correct the wrong of this injustice”.
“Students of my first year law understand that it is fundamentally wrong,” he said.
“What time and time comes again, these prisoners have lost hope. We want to restore hope for those and their families who will pressurize and effectively shame the government on a national scam.”
Mr. Lloyd was just 18 years old when he was given an IPP sentence with two and a half year tariffs to push someone on the floor and steal his phone. After being followed by the victim, he handed it back and apologized.
He served eight years before his first release and had returned to jail four times despite allegations of any other crime.
Her heart -breaking mother, Ms. Debono, who is also calling for a meeting with Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper, said the period of prison had a devastating effect on the father and her two children, who are nine and seven years old.
He said, “This has had a huge impact on his mental health and his good,” he said that he has spent his entire adult life under the shadow of the prison period.
“He never feels safe because being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and he knows that he will be remembered. You always have that fear. It harms him, harm his brain.”
It has also taken a toll on Ms. Debono, who has dedicated years to campaigning on her behalf.
She said: “I go to bed thinking about Shaun, and I think about Shaun. It doesn’t leave me, day out day, I am serving punishment with Shaun.”
In the Norfolk, in an appeal from Inside HMP Wiland, Leroy Douglas revealed his frustration to start his second chapter of his life crime free.
He has served about 19 years to loot a mobile phone to feed his medicine habit. Despite cleaning and completing 36 jail courses from inside, he has sentenced about eight times and still has no release date
“I am really happy to be a part of this landmark United Nations case, which I hope will bring embarrassment to the UK government,” he said.
“Year -Dar -Sal they have continued my custody when experts have told them that I am not risk for the public.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: “It is true that IPP sentences were abolished. We are firm to progress towards safe and sustainable release for those in jail, but not in such a way that it reduces public safety.”