'One Iranian asylum seeker who fled because of his opposition to the government in Tehran, said: “My world, which I had hoped would light up again in this country, was plunged into darkness when I was transferred to a prison called Wethersfield.

“I was identified in Iran, I had to lock myself up in remote rural houses for a while, and now here I have exactly the same feeling and the same memories have come back to me. I am afraid that I will die in this place.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/28/deadly-experiment-uk-asylum-sites-criticised-for-horrific-level-of-despair

Deadly experiment? UK asylum sites criticised for ‘horrific’ level of despair

Critics of the government’s mass housing plan say it won’t save public money and at worst put asylum seekers at risk of suicide

The Guardian