Immigration judge frees Roma family from detention, 21/08/11

A Roma family from Kosovo were freed from Lesquin detention centre in Lille on Sunday 21st August, reports Liberation, after a JLD (judge of liberty and detetion)  ruled that their treatment had been “inhumane and degrading”. The family –  mother, four-month pregnant mother, and three children aged 4, 7 and 10 – were arrested on 17th August in Clermont-Ferrand. The JLD underlined the risk of health to the mother and unborn child of detention and questioned why the family had been brought to detention in Lille, a 10 hour journey from Clemont-Ferrand, rather than to Lyon.

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