And yet, somehow, we are constantly told to believe they are the fault of immigrants, of marginalised minorities. And only a couple of weeks ago we saw what happens when lies are dressed up as freedom of speech. And every day in Freedom from Torture’s therapy rooms, we see the human consequences of this. I had to flee my home in Central Africa and make a perilous journey to find safety here in the UK. Every day across the world people are being tortured for going to school, practising their religion, protesting peacefully or voting.