Throughout Somalia, unregulated “camps” promising to show rebellious younger individuals self-discipline and spiritual training have been promoting themselves to oldsters within the west from the Somali diaspora. However what occurs behind their closed doorways?
For greater than a 12 months, the assistant editor of the Guardian’s First Version publication, Nimo Omer, has been investigating the rise of those centres. She tells Hannah Moore why she fears tons of of European and US younger individuals might have been despatched to them – and why they’re so harmful.
Hannah Moore speaks to Fadumo, a British teenager who says she spent months in a single – and was crushed and chained up. Is the British authorities doing sufficient to guard younger individuals like her?
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