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Hotel staff had ignored Rafiq's pleas to eat specific food at specific times and use insulin.  "People in the hotel heard me crying and pleading for my life but the hotel staff ignored me and dismissed my actions as causing a scene," says Rafiq.  Rafiq's counsel contacted the health secretary but no promises were made....

Exclusive: Isolating British families given ‘inadequate’ food that does not comply with religious beliefs, forced to sleep on dirty bed linen and deprived of fresh air in potential breach of human rights, lawyers say. Families are being forced to stay in “cramped” and “unsanitary” conditions and deprived of suitable food and drink while in hotel quarantine in what...

LONDON: Two High Court judges ordered the British government to improve hotel quarantine services in response to a petition for interim relief filed by a lawyer representing a British family of Pakistani origin. Barrister Zahab Jamali filed the petition on behalf of a family of five that had returned from Pakistan earlier this month and...

UK’s High Court (HC) has ordered the British government to provide suitable food and sufficient daily outdoor exercise facilities to British Pakistani travellers currently quarantining at the officially approved hotel near Heathrow airport. Justice Henshaw in his order observed the government’s failure to fully comply with an earlier order of the court to address the...