{"id":192991,"date":"2021-06-06T06:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/06\/asylum-seekers-in-napier-barracks-face-blacklist-threat-for-speaking-out"},"modified":"2021-06-06T06:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T06:15:31","slug":"asylum-seekers-in-napier-barracks-face-blacklist-threat-for-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/06\/asylum-seekers-in-napier-barracks-face-blacklist-threat-for-speaking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seekers in Napier barracks \u2018face blacklist threat for speaking out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the Home Office facility claim they have been told their applications will be \u2018impaired\u2019 if they talk to the media<\/p><p>Asylum seekers held at the Home Office\u2019s widely criticised military barracks in Kent claim they will be \u201cblacklisted\u201d if they speak out after last week\u2019s high court ruling that the decision to use the site was unlawful.<\/p><p>Staff employed by private Home Office contractors at the Napier barracks site at Folkestone have allegedly told residents that their asylum application will be impaired if they talk to the media about conditions at the camp.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/30\/sham-200-groups-criticise-uk-government-consultation-on-refugee-policy\">\u2018Sham\u2019: 200 groups criticise UK government consultation on refugee policy<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/06\/asylum-seekers-in-napier-barracks-face-blacklist-threat-for-speaking-out\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/06\/asylum-seekers-in-napier-barracks-face-blacklist-threat-for-speaking-out\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in the Home Office facility claim they have been told their applications will be \u2018impaired\u2019 if they talk to the mediaAsylum seekers held at the Home Office\u2019s widely criticised military barracks in Kent claim they will be \u201cblacklisted\u201d if they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3056,6,242,14,3057,238,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192991"}],"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=192991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192992,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192991\/revisions\/192992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}