We're appalled to learn that Choul Phan Maker, a refugee seeking safety, has been imprisoned for arriving ‘unlawfully’ and steering a boat across the Channel.

This marks a worrying development in the criminalisation of asylum seekers.

We wrote recently about the criminalisation of Ibrahima Bah, a teenager from Senegal, who was the first shipwreck survivor to face manslaughter charges for the deaths of fellow passengers.

We are deeply concerned about the criminalisation of asylum.
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