This post comes from Anna Morvern, an immigration lawyer at Law Centre (NI)who writes here in a personal capacity. Anna has worked with and for immigration detainees for a number of years, as Legal Officer at Bail for Immigration Detainees and as an activist with various groups, including the Refugee Action Group in Northern Ireland.
http://rightsni.org/2011/08/uk-breaches-article-3-echr-in-its-treatment-of-immigration-detainee/