Some migrants have been flown to Rwanda for medical treatment following self-harm and suicide attempts, and those with successful claims are waiting for a “safe third country” to be identified to resettle them in.
United Nations representatives visited the camp late last year and reported that conditions there amounted to arbitrary detention.
In interviews with the BBC, migrants have described conditions on the island as hellish.
“We are the parrots, we are in a cage,” one said last year of the lack of freedom.
During Tuesday’s virtual hearing, one of the migrants on the island appeared to collapse.
The Foreign Office has previously told the BBC that the island is not suitable for migrants to live on and that it is “working tirelessly to process the migrants’ claims for protection and to find a suitable third country for those whose claims are upheld”.
“At all times, the welfare and safety of migrants on Biot has been our top priority,” it said earlier this year.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 