Search results for ‘asylum’
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Rwanda flight protesters gather at deportation centre
Human rights activists have been demonstrating at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport against the government’s plans to send asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to Rwanda.
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Sri Lankans stranded in Diego Garcia after rescue from sinking boat
Channel 4 News understands immigration checks have started to determine where they may be transported to.
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Justin Welby on free speech, Rwanda and partygate
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby responded to the Sue Gray report on Twitter this week saying: “Standards in public life are the glue that holds us together – we need to rediscover them and abide by them.”
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Linton-on-Ouse council considers legal action against Home Office
A council in North Yorkshire is considering taking legal action against the Home Office over plans to house an asylum seeker processing centre at a former RAF base in the village of Linton-on-Ouse.
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German court sentences Syrian ex-colonel to life for crimes against humanity
Anwar Raslan had applied for asylum in Germany as a refugee, but was recognised and arrested.
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FactCheck: has Johnson broken his promise to resettle 5,000 Afghans?
So far, just one family has been resettled under the scheme.
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Home Office plans to turn back migrants at sea condemned by critics
The government’s flagship immigration bill has been approved by the House of Commons after a heated debate and chaotic scenes during the vote.
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FactCheck: Javid’s misleading claim about UK’s refugee policy
The UK is far from the most generous country overall.
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At least 31 feared dead after boat heading for UK sinks in English Channel
It is the worst known loss of life from the small boats coming across the Channel carrying people who mainly arrive to claim asylum.
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Albanian ambassador rejects proposals for processing centre for Channel migrants
We spoke to the Albanian ambassador to the UK, Qirjako Qirko, and we asked him if Albania is one of the countries the British government is hoping to partner with when it comes to processing asylum seekers.
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Belarus Olympian Krystina Timanovskaya arrives in Vienna after refusing flight home
She refused to fly home from Tokyo on Monday, saying she was being removed from the Olympics under duress.
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‘Any criticism of Belarus regime treated as criticism of Lukashenko himself’, says adviser to opposition leader
We talk to Franak Viačorka, a senior adviser to the exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, about the Olympic athlete who is now seeking asylum claiming she fears for her safety.
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Boris Johnson says UK must turn ‘jabs into jobs’ after pandemic
A promise to “level up” and redistribute spending after the inequalities exposed by the pandemic might sound like an excerpt from a Labour manifesto.
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Series 7, Episode 10: Tawseef Khan
Tawseef Khan speaks to Krishnan about Islamophobia, what integration means to him and his experience growing up as a Muslim in the north of England.
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2021: Former Syrian official convicted by German court in first case of its kind
Today, a German court found a former member of President Assad’s secret police guilty of facilitating the torture of prisoners.