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Asylum seekers claim they are put in isolation ‘for feeling depressed’

Exclusive: Three men describe ‘prison-like’ conditions at controversial RAF Wethersfield in wake of ‘hunger strike’

Asylum seekers claim they are put in isolation ‘for feeling depressed’
Asylum seekers' accommodation at RAF Wethersfield - Care4Calais
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Asylum seekers housed at a controversial “prison-like” former RAF base claim they have been put in solitary confinement after complaining of depression.

The charity Care4Calais is understood to have been made aware of a number of similar allegations.

RAF Wethersfield – a remote, 800-acre site in Wethersfield, Essex, surrounded by barbed wire fences – is the government’s latest answer to housing asylum seekers. In theory, residents can come and go.