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Puja Nandi, a trainee solicitor in the Public Law team at Duncan Lewis who represented the two claimants in the successful High Court challenge on conditions in Brook House immigration removal centre, has spoken on RT about the indirect discrimination by the Home Office in subjecting Muslim detainees to unsanitary conditions within which they must pray. Puja discusses the conditions in Brook House which has seen detainees locked in unsanitary, overcrowded cells for more than 13 hours a day, in conditions “highly discouraged” in Islam. Puja states: “Part of our challenge was to challenge the fact that Muslim detainees in Brook House are forced to carry out their prayers in these unclean, unsanitary conditions and one of the tenets of the Islamic faith is to carry out your prayers in clean conditions and it’s only in extreme circumstances that you should be praying in these conditions. So the fact that the Home secretary has allowed these extreme circumstances to exist is not right.”