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From Persecution to Prison: The Health Consequences of Detention for Asylum Seekers [1]

This report, by Physicians for Human Rights and the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in 2003, discusses the health effects of detention on asylum seekers. It also suggests ways that the practice of long term detention of asylum seekers could be modified.

http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/from-persecution-to-prison.h… [2]

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Source URL:https://healtorture.org/resource/persecution-prison-health-consequences-detention-asylum-seekers

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[1] https://healtorture.org/resource/persecution-prison-health-consequences-detention-asylum-seekers [2] http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/from-persecution-to-prison.html