August 18, 2026
Senior officials say Britain's insistence that Pakistan accept Shabir Ahmed, freed after serving 14 years for 30 child rape offences, is jeopardising an arrangement under which nearly 1,500 people were returned in the past year.
November 17, 2025
Britain’s Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood appears on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg at the BBC in London, Britain, Nov. 16, 2025, in this handout image. — Reuters The government is seeking changes to the interpretation of human rights laws. UK hardens stance as polls show concern over immigration. Changes to refugee status part of planned turnaround. Britain will overhaul its approach to human rights laws to make it easier to deport migrants who arrive in the country illegally in a major overhaul of asylum policy to be decided on Monday. Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood will outline changes to how the European
August 27, 2025
LONDON: Nigel Farage, leader of the British party against UK immigration, announced a plan on Tuesday to abolish human rights laws to allow mass expulsion of asylum seekers, an action that said it needed to prevent “significant political disorder”. Farage said that his party, which leads to national polls, would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), will abolish the human rights law and disappear other international conditions used to prevent asylum. “We are not too far from the big political disorder,” Farage said at a press conference. “It’s an invasion, as these young men illegally enter
August 25, 2025
LONDON: The UK government pledged Sunday to revise the asylum system following weekend protests across the country in hotels housing immigrants. The government said it would create a new independent body to hear appeals from failed applicants faster as it is trying to end the costly use of asylum hotels, which have become the target of protests. Protests began outside a hotel in Epping, Southeast England after a resident was accused of sexually attacked a 14 -year -old girl. The labor government said on Friday that it would appeal to a court that prevents it from housing asylum seekers at
July 11, 2025
ATHENS: A leading humanitarian team criticized Greece on Thursday after its government announced that it would stop all asylum hearing for people arriving from North Africa for three months to prevent a migration from Libya. Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitotas on Wednesday told Parliament that Greece would adopt legislation on Thursday to discourage asylum seekers from North Africa. The move came after more than 2,000 immigrants landing in Crete in recent days, causing anger between local authorities and tourism bodies. More than 7,000 have reached the island and the nearby Gavdos since the beginning of the year, compared to 4,935 in
March 25, 2025
Listen to the article As US researchers face sweeping funding cuts, ideological repressions and growing political interference under the second term of President Donald Trump, a growing number of European universities offers what some have called “scientific asylum”. At the forefront is the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Vub) in Belgium, which opened 12 postdoctoral positions specifically aimed at attracting international researchers, focusing on Americans. The initiative responds to what the university calls the “serious and gradual” suppression of research in the United States. “We see it as our duty to help our American colleagues,” said Vub Rector Jan Danckaert. “They see
January 11, 2025
GENEVA: Australia has violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, the UN watchdog ruled on Thursday, in a warning to other countries looking to outsource the asylum process. The UN Human Rights Commission has published judgments in two cases involving 25 refugees and asylum seekers who suffered years of arbitrary detention in the island nation. The panel of 18 independent experts found that in both cases Australia violated the rights of migrants, including minors who received inadequate water and health care. “A state party cannot escape its human rights responsibility when it outsources its
September 9, 2024
Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew to Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after he quit the country amid a political and diplomatic crisis over disputed July elections. Gonzalez – who disputed President Nicolas Maduro’s victory declaration – arrived at the Torrejón de Ardoz military base with his wife, Spain’s foreign ministry said in a statement. The departure of the 75-year-old – seen by the US, the EU and other powers in the region as the winner of the disputed vote – came a week after Venezuelan authorities issued an arrest warrant against him, charging him
December 22, 2023
Hanan Elatr applied for political asylum three years ago, fearing her life would be in danger in her homeland The Committee to Protect Journalists and other press freedom activists hold a candlelight vigil in front of the Saudi Embassy to mark the anniversary of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Wednesday afternoon in Washington, US, October 2, 2019. — Reuters The widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, has been granted political asylum in the United States. BBC mentionted. Khashoggi was killed in 2018 and US
December 17, 2023
ROME: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Saturday he would push for global reforms to the asylum system and warned that the threat of rising refugee numbers could “overwhelm” parts of Europe. In a speech in Italy, Sunak delivered some of his sharpest criticism of the global asylum system as he tries to revive his government’s plans to send refugees to live in Rwanda. Sunak made the comments at a political festival organized by his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni’s party, where he warned that some “enemies” were deliberately “driving people to our shores to try to destabilize our societies”.
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