Meanwhile, in Britain, campaigners launch legal challenge against government’s ‘medieval-style Rwanda banishment’ plans ACTIVIST rescuers saved a further 131 people in the central Mediterranean today, as more signs of illegal refugee pushbacks were discovered. The activist-run Ocean Viking rescue ship carried out what it described as a difficult operation in three-metre high waves in theContinue reading “131 refugee lives saved as further evidence of Mediterranean pushbacks emerge”
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Activists celebrate ‘stunning victory’ after UK Home Office drops refugee pushback plans
ACTIVISTS celebrated “a stunning victory” today after Britain‘s Home Secretary Priti Patel abandoned her controversial plans to push refugees crossing the Channel back to France. Care4Calais, Channel Rescue, Freedom from Torture and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union brought legal challenges against the Home Office last year opposing its proposed policy of turning backContinue reading “Activists celebrate ‘stunning victory’ after UK Home Office drops refugee pushback plans”
UK Border Force may have begun attempts to push refugees back across the Channel already, evidence suggests
Meanwhile, a Sudanese man drowns off the northern coast of France today ACTIVISTS have warned that the UK Border Force (UKBF) may have begun implementing the Home Office’s controversial plans to push asylum seekers back across the Channel to France. Channel Rescue, a human rights group monitoring the sea between Britain and France, said yesterdayContinue reading “UK Border Force may have begun attempts to push refugees back across the Channel already, evidence suggests”
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