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Lizzie Dearden

@lizziedearden

Home affairs and security journalist, formerly @Independent

Author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed', out now: https://t.co/QFxY5tfTCW

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2 years ago

The government has vowed to jail asylum seekers for steering their own dinghies across the Channel, claiming they could face life sentences

The UN Refugee Agency has said such prosecutions could violate the Refugee Convention and should not happen

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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