When it was first built such establishments were referred to as 'lunatic asylums' and Whittingham was the second biggest in Europe. The hospital closed in 1995 and, while the NHS built Guild Park on ...

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford draws on his research into lunatic asylums in his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, to explore survival from childhood trauma. Did you know ...

He was committed to Colney Hatch lunatic asylum in north London the following year. He died 28 years later in the Leavesden Asylum, Hertfordshire. His eldest brother, Isaac, was a wealthy tailor ...

MILAN — Italian authorities on Thursday rejected the asylum requests of 43 asylum-seekers transferred to Albania in a speedy procedure that a non-governmental delegation observing the process ...

BERLIN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The right to asylum is a fixed component of German laws and values, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday in an address to parliament. He spoke just before the ...

By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Italian judges on Friday again denied the government’s request to hold asylum seekers in Albania while their cases are being processed ...

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under modern slavery and other human rights laws ...

The Biden administration has finalized a new rule that will allow the U.S. to quickly remove undocumented immigrants deemed ineligible at the border for asylum. The new rule goes into effect ...

A Home Office pilot scheme involving asylum seekers forced to wear ankle tags to track their locations "did not affect compliance" among them, a government report has concluded. The trial ...

her 9-year-old son Abel Jesus, says. Polanco and the other nine members of her family are among thousands of asylum-seekers who were stopped in their tracks by US President Donald Trump’s ...

The asylum seeker barge Bibby Stockholm has been pictured leaving port, 18 months after it arrived. Images show the vessel being towed away from Portland Port, after the last asylum seekers left ...