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CoE: Commissioner for Human Rights: Commissioner publishes Memorandum on asylum and immigration in the UK

22 March 2016

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"Yesterday the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights published a Memorandum addressed to the UK Immigration Minister, James Brokenshire, in which he commends the UK’s efforts in providing resettlement to Syrian refugees. He also expresses a number of concerns regarding a trend of restrictive immigration policy and law which adversely affects the human rights of refugees and immigrants.

The Memorandum also highlights the plight of the 67 refugees and asylum seekers who have been in the UK Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus since 1998. The government is urged to resettle them to the UK thus putting an end to their extremely precarious legal and social situation."

See: Commissioner publishes Memorandum on asylum and immigration in the UK (link)

And: Government reply (pdf)

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