Child soldiers ‘jailed’ for going AWOL despite MoD policy

Campaigners are lobbying the Government to either raise the minimum age of recruitment from 16 to 18 or to make absolute the right of a young recruit to leave training. Several groups told Channel 4 News that the incarceration of minors in a de facto military prison is “immoral”, flouts UN convention and contradicts MoD policy.

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