Channel Migrants Seek Millions Over ‘Inhumane’ UK Detention
11th September 2025
Around 200 migrants who arrived in the UK illegally by crossing the Channel from France could collectively receive millions of pounds in compensation—paid for by the taxpayer—for being kept in “inhumane” conditions.
Lawyers representing the asylum seekers have lodged legal claims against the Home Office for the alleged unlawful detention and mistreatment of migrants at the Manston migrant holding centre near Dover, citing the favourite weapon of the pro-open borders crowd, the European Convention on Human Rights.