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Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre: Alois Dvorzac

Alois Dvorzac: The 84-year-old man, identified in media reports as Alois Dvorzac, was sent to the privately run Harmondsworth immigration removal centre on January 23, 2013, after he was refused entry on arrival at Gatwick Airport, according to CTV. He died in hospital on February 10, after being restrained in handcuffs for five hours and A report that highlighted the death, in handcuffs, of an elderly Canadian refused entry to the U.K. has Britons wondering about the treatment of immigration detainees. According to the prison watchdog's report released Thursday , a doctor described the man as a frail Alzheimer's patient, but he was not released, and his case was never referred to social services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.