Mohamoud: the man they will detain forever

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Mohamoud Abdi Jama left Somaila as a war orphan at 13. A decade later, he found himself locked up in an immigration prison “indefinitely” in a Catch22 nightmare: he could not be sent back to Somalia because it was too dangerous to fly there, but at the same time the Home Office would not let him remain in the UK. Their solution? To lock him up and throw away the key.

This interview had to be recorded in secret.

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