The new government’s promise to ‘end the detention of children for immigration purposes’, sparked hopes that this country might at last be moving towards an asylum policy based on evidence and not led by politicians’ terror of the tabloids.
By Clare Sambrook
Yemane left behind family, career, and fame in Eritrea to come to Britain where his prominence at the top of his profession as a news journalist and broadcaster, unafraid to witness to the truth, made him a natural target for government repression and violence.


