A charity is calling for urgent action after asylum seekers were “retraumatised, dehumanised and harmed” by recent far-right violence.

Conversation Over Borders is calling for action to close isolated hotels housing asylum seekers in the wake of violence across the UK last week.

The Brighton-based charity previously sent over 1,000 “messages of welcome” to asylum seekers in the space of a day after hundreds of people protested in the city against right wing violence.

In an open letter to the government and home secretary Yvette Cooper, Conversation Over Borders chief executive Colette Batten-Turner said: "Asylum seekers and refugees in our community are being retraumatised, dehumanised, and harmed by the targeting of them in the hotels where they are being housed.

"It is beyond terrifying to see the far-right violence that has been unleashed. These are among the most vulnerable people in the country. People are very scared.

"Initial accommodation hotels have become a gift to the far right, enabling violence against asylum seekers and refugees. They must be closed down, and asylum seekers must be housed in the community, where they can become part of the fabric of wider society."

Sussex hotels have been used to house asylum seekers and refugees, including children.

Conversation Over Borders sent “messages of welcome” to asylum seekers in a targeted campaign to try and combat far right violence and sentiment.

Each message was handwritten and delivered to people newly arrived in the UK, including those at hotels targeted by far-right violence.

The UK was hit by rioting and violence after three children were killed in a stabbing in Southport.

In Brighton, nearly 1,000 people came out to drown out any far right protesters after a protest was advertised to take place outside an immigration solicitor’s office.

While largely peaceful, eggs, flour and a snooker ball in a sock were thrown at a handful of alleged protesters in Queen’s Road on August 7.

One man, Ian Ward, was jailed after striking a man in the face.

Protesters also turned out en masse at the site of another alleged protest in Three Bridges, near Crawley.