{"id":36863,"date":"2021-09-15T02:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/14\/uk-borders-bill-could-criminalise-afghan-refugees-un-representative-warns"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:51:19","slug":"uk-borders-bill-could-criminalise-afghan-refugees-un-representative-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36863","title":{"rendered":"UK borders bill could criminalise Afghan refugees, UN representative warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor tells MPs proposed legislation could end up punishing those fleeing Taliban if travelling by illegal routes<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s refugee chief in London has said the introduction of the new nationality and borders bill could criminalise Afghan people who manage to escape the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor, the UNHCR\u2019S representative in the UK, told MPs that the government could find itself in a situation where it is jailing Afghans who seek refuge in the UK because they travelled by illegal routes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/sep\/14\/uk-borders-bill-could-criminalise-afghan-refugees-un-representative-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor tells MPs proposed legislation could end up punishing those fleeing Taliban if travelling by illegal routesThe UN\u2019s refugee chief in London has said the introduction of the new nationality and borders bill could criminalise Afgha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1832,717,491,4,494,61,52,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-house-of-commons","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-migration","category-politics","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36864,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36863\/revisions\/36864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}