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Activist arrested outside Home Office while protesting peacefully against Illegal Migration Bill
‘This incident demonstrates not only how far refugee rights have been eroded in the UK but also how the right to protest is under attack,’ Reclaim The Sea founder Tigs Louis-Puttick says
Tigs Louis-Puttick, founder of the migrant rights organisation Reclaim The Sea, protests outside the Home Office on Tuesday night while a police officer Googles Section 12

POLICE have arrested an activist peacefully protesting against the government’s harsh new immigration law.

Tigs Louis-Puttick, founder of the migrant rights organisation Reclaim The Sea, and others protested outside the Home Office as Parliament passed the government’s Illegal Migration Bill on Tuesday evening.

The law — which top UN human rights officials have called to be reversed — will ban anyone who arrives into the country irregularly, including unaccompanied children, from seeking asylum in Britain, and seeks to deport them to a third country.

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