Braverman’s plans to lock up refugees breaches international law, UN warns
Proposals to imprison asylum-seekers arriving by small boat would be illegal, UNHCR tells the Home Secretary
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel
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PROPOSALS endorsed by Suella Braverman to lock up refugees arriving in small boats and bar them from ever settling in Britain would breach international law, the United Nations refugee agency warned today.
The idea were set out in a report by right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies, with a foreword written by the Home Secretary — seen as a partial endorsement of the measures.
The report suggests that,“if necessary” to tackle small boat crossings, Britain should withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights.
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