Ireland criticised for jailing immigrants over questions about legal status

More than 400 immigrants and other visitors were detained in Irish jails in one year because of questions over their legal status.

Now an international think-tank has warned the practice may be forbidden under European law.

The Swiss-based Global Detention Project (GDP) has highlighted the repeated criticisms made of the practice by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and by its UN equivalent.