FIVE asylum-seekers who claim they were unlawfully detained in Britain took their case against the Home Office to the Court of Appeal yesterday.
The five men, from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, entered Britain in 2014 or 2015 and were detained pending removal under European Union law, which requires that refugees claim asylum in the first EU country they reach.
The Home Office separately detained the five men pending removal to Bulgaria or Austria, where they first entered the EU, which they allege was unlawful.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
