Home Office
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Afghan refugee in London told to give up doctorate and move to Yorkshire
University asks home secretary to intervene in move that would deprive him of scholarship and teaching rolesA …
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Hongkongers in UK ask Suella Braverman to ditch ‘repressive’ anti-protest bill
Exclusive: Letter to home secretary says bill echoes ‘dangerously broad laws’ that result in jailing of protes…
- Afghanistan, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Home Office, Immigration and asylum, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise
Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indiffer…
- Home Office, Immigration and asylum, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, UK news, World news
Refugee wrongly labelled child murderer says decades of his life wasted
Mayooran Thangaratnam fled Sri Lanka for the UK in 2003 after brutal murder of his father but was repeatedly r…
- Afghanistan, Home Office, Human rights, Law, Pakistan, Politics, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Afghan female judge fleeing Taliban appeals after Home Office refuses UK entry
Lawyers say the woman, who is in hiding in Pakistan with her son, will be killed if sent back to AfghanistanA …
- Afghanistan, Foreign policy, Home Office, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, UK news
UK treatment of Afghan refugees ‘continues to be source of shame’
MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British fo…
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‘They’d come to kill me’: The Afghan tax reformer hunted by the Taliban and abandoned by the Britain he served
A year after the fall of Kabul, Abdullah Sayyid is in hiding, his wife has been murdered and the Home Office s…
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‘Shameful’: Afghans who helped UK abandoned to a life of fear under the Taliban
Home Office accused of failing to ensure safety of thousands including teachers and translatorsThousands of Af…
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Visa delays leave UK families with adopted babies stranded in Pakistan
Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to…
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Afghan refugees are caught up in the UK’s housing crisis | Letters
Jakki Moxham reflects on the experience of a family who came to Britain last year, and the systemic failures o…
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Welcome to Britain … now what? Afghan families on their lives in limbo
As war in Ukraine creates millions of new refugees, many people airlifted to safety from Kabul last summer are…
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UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intel…
- Afghanistan, Home Office, Immigration and asylum, Politics, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, UK news, World news
Thousands of Afghans stuck in UK hotels as resettlement plan stalls
Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support‘Doesn’t seem possib…
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Sri Lankan man left in immigration limbo for decades can stay in UK
Ponnampalam Jothibala, who came to the UK in 1983, granted indefinite leave to remain by Home OfficeA man who …
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Home Office tells Afghan and Yemeni asylum seekers they can return safely
Rejection of men’s claims was against UK guidance not to force returns to Afghanistan and YemenThe Home Office…