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Article

9 Apr 2005

Author:
Diane Taylor & Hugh Muir, Guardian [UK]

Security firms in deportations row [UK]

Security firms involved in the deportation of failed asylum seekers are facing more and more claims of intimidation and assault...Campaigners who studied 35 complaints...revealed GSL [Global Solutions Ltd.] was involved in 30% of cases...A GSL spokeswoman said its staff were well trained and complaints should be viewed in context: "We do 100,000 escort movements a year and the occasions in which control and restraint are used represent a fraction of 1% of those."