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The Illegal Migration Bill will effectively extinguish the right to seek asylum in the UK, say lawyers who have examined the proposed legislation on behalf of human rights charity, Freedom from Torture. Key aspects of the bill are incompatible with the UK’s international obligations under the
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Judges in Strasbourg will be unable to block migrant deportations after the UK government agreed to amend the Illegal Migration Bill to allow ministers to ignore interim injunctions. The Rule 39 orders of the European Court of Human Rights were used to suspend the first scheduled deportation flight
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