Senior Home Office Official to be Questioned Over Asylum Seeker Beat Down

It now seems that Senior Home office officials will be questioned this coming week over allegations that a woman inside Yarl's Wood emigration detention center was assaulted by staff using a riot shield. Right now there are detainees inside the Bedforshire center who claim that they witnessed the woman being beaten down and injured.

Although things like this have been claimed before, this time a photo was taken on a mobile phone. This photo apparently reveals extensive bruising to a woman's shoulder and legs, which were allegedly caused by staff during the incident back on February 8^th. This was just days after dozens of asylum seekers instigated a hunger strike over the length of their detention. Another image showed the injuries to a detainee after a guard allegedly slammed a window on her hand.

This coming Tuesday the chief executive of the UK Border Agency, Lin Homer, and the agency's chief inspector, John Vine, are expected to be questioned by the home affairs select committee over these claims. The chairman of the committee, Keith Vaz, said that the evidence is extremely concerning. If the allegations are correct, then it may be appropriate for a police investigation. They are eager to establish what exactly is going on in Yarl's Wood.

The hunger strike will now enter into its fourth week tomorrow. The allegations of abuse are being examined by the London law firms Birnberg Peirce and Fisher Meredith. The law firms said that they have spoken to a client in Yarl's Wood, and she has seen the bruising herself from the incident that took place on February 8^th.