Court stops Tamil asylum seekers being sent back to Sri Lanka
The UK Border Agency has been ordered to completely halt the removal
of Tamils who have been refused asylum, pending an assessment of the
risk such individuals face on return to Sri Lanka.
The high court decision came on Wednesday, 24 hours before 65 people – mostly Tamil and mostly unsuccessful asylum seekers – were due to be removed on a charter flight to Sri Lanka. The court ruled that it would be wrong to deport them when an immigration tribunal was in the process of updating its country guidance for Sri Lanka. The assessment, designed to assist immigration judges, is not expected until late April or early May.
Read the full article in the Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/28/border-agency-tamils-sri-lanka?CMP=twt_gu
Other reasons were that there was evidence submitted by HRW that tirture occured. And 15 returned failed asylumseekers fled again to the UK and got refugee status because they were tortured.
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The high court decision came on Wednesday, 24 hours before 65 people – mostly Tamil and mostly unsuccessful asylum seekers – were due to be removed on a charter flight to Sri Lanka. The court ruled that it would be wrong to deport them when an immigration tribunal was in the process of updating its country guidance for Sri Lanka. The assessment, designed to assist immigration judges, is not expected until late April or early May.
Read the full article in the Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/28/border-agency-tamils-sri-lanka?CMP=twt_gu
Other reasons were that there was evidence submitted by HRW that tirture occured. And 15 returned failed asylumseekers fled again to the UK and got refugee status because they were tortured.
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