{"id":125564,"date":"2021-04-17T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/17\/witnesses-to-deaths-in-detention-deliberately-deported-from-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-04-17T13:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T13:56:40","slug":"witnesses-to-deaths-in-detention-deliberately-deported-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/17\/witnesses-to-deaths-in-detention-deliberately-deported-from-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses to deaths in detention \u2018deliberately\u2019 deported from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office accused of undermining investigations into the deaths of migrants awaiting deportation<\/p><p>Scores of people who could be key witnesses to deaths in detention may have been \u201cdeliberately\u201d deported before they could give evidence, it has been claimed. And it has also emerged that the home secretary, Priti Patel, failed to address concerns from a coroner last year that the actions of her department could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/14\/priti-patels-detention-policies-found-to-breach-human-rights-rules\">undermined police investigations<\/a>.<\/p><p>Patel was informed last August of concerns from a coroner that Home Office officials possibly \u201cchose to ignore the fact\u201d that witnesses to the contentious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/deathsincustody\">death of a black detainee<\/a> were due to give evidence before attempting to remove them from the UK.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/17\/witnesses-to-deaths-in-detention-deliberately-deported-from-the-uk\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/17\/witnesses-to-deaths-in-detention-deliberately-deported-from-the-uk\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office accused of undermining investigations into the deaths of migrants awaiting deportationScores of people who could be key witnesses to deaths in detention may have been \u201cdeliberately\u201d deported before they could give evidence, it has been clai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3056,6,3055,640,14,3057,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125828,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125564\/revisions\/125828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}