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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ruling-due-on-detention-of-children.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The High Court is to rule on whether the detention of children at Yarl's Wood violates human rights" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-ruling-due-on-detention-of-children.jpg" alt="The High Court is to rule on whether the detention of children at Yarl's Wood violates human rights"/></a></p>
<p>The High Court is to rule on whether the detention of children at Yarl&#8217;s Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire violates human rights.</p>
<p>Two single mothers say a lack of safeguards at the centre led to their children suffering distress and trauma.</p>
<p>Reetha Suppiah, 37, a Malaysian nurse, and Sakinat Bello, 25, a Nigerian national, want a declaration that the Government policy of detaining minors at the centre is so flawed that it cannot be operated lawfully.</p>
<p>A ruling on their application for judicial review will be given at London&#8217;s High Court by Mr Justice Wyn Williams.</p>
<p>Both mothers were failed asylum seekers arrested by UK Border Agency officers in dawn raids on their homes last February.</p>
<p>They were taken to Yarl&#8217;s Wood, Bedfordshire, the UK&#8217;s main removal centre for women and children, on the basis that they had no right to remain in the UK.</p>
<p>Reetha and her two boys, aged one and 11, were detained for 17 days, whilst Sakinat and her two-year-old daughter were held for 12 days before being released and allowed back into the community pending their legal challenges.</p>
<p>Rabinder Singh QC, representing the families, said at a hearing last year the evidence before the court &#8211; largely uncontested &#8211; revealed the harmful impact of their treatment on both mothers and children.</p>
<p>Reetha&#8217;s eldest child was particularly badly affected and now lived &#8220;in continuous fear of re-arrest&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Singh said there was &#8220;strong and consistent evidence&#8221; to support the claim that &#8220;serious harm is routinely caused to detained children&#8221;, and the immigration detention system was afflicted by &#8220;fundamental structural problems&#8221;.</p>
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