SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 22/09/05
Scottish Socialist Party national convenor Colin Fox MSP today said the Executive's criticism of Home Office policy was 'too little, too late' and called for the Executive to go further in tackling human rights abuses
Colin said:
"At last Jack McConnell has noticed the human rights abuses going on under his nose - after a public outcry.
"Human rights abuses are being perpetrated against asylum seekers in Scotland every day.
"It's not just a question of dawn raids - how would Mr McConnell feel if he was locked behind barbed wire fences without ever having committed a crime?
"The detention of innocent men, women and children in Dungavel Detention Centre represents an abuse of human rights which the Executive should be challenging Westminster over.
"The Labour-Lib Dem government in Holyrood have been complicit in the human rights abuses ordered by Westminster. This squeak of protest is too little, too late - the Executive must go much further if they are to be taken seriously."
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