The British newspaper The Guardian confirmed on Saturday the death of a detainee in one of the detention centers for asylum seekers in Britain, at a time when the government plans to house them in military bases and ships, in order to reduce hotel costs.
The death comes at a time when the government is facing mounting pressure over its failure to deal with the asylum seeker crisis.
The Home Office has opened an investigation. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has decided to make stopping illegal crossings into the English Channel towards the kingdom one of his priorities.
On Wednesday, Immigration Secretary Robert Jenrick announced that the UK "plans to temporarily house asylum seekers in abandoned military bases or even in ships".
The minister told MPs the government was working to house "several thousand" asylum seekers in old barracks and mobile housing at two former Royal Air Force bases in the southeast and east of England.
Jenrick also explained that the prospect of staying in hotels is usually a "magnet for migrants across the Channel".
Charity organisations opposed the British government's plan, saying the accommodation they plan to prepare was "completely inadequate".
Steve Valdes-Symonds, Amnesty International's UK Director for Refugees and Migrants, called for refugees to be treated "with dignity and not to be held in boats or other inappropriate and isolated accommodation".
Earlier in March, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Rwanda with the aim of speeding up the deportation deal for asylum seekers. According to British government data, more than 45,<> people entered Britain last year.