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UK: Asylum-seekers not illegal

01 May 1992

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The Court of Appeal has ruled that asylum-seekers who leave their country on false documents are not illegal entrants, as long as they do not use the documents to deceive immigration officers when they arrive in Britain. On 14 April it quashed the convictions of two men who had helped refugees to come to Britain by giving them false documents to enable them to get on flights from Kenya and Sri Lanka. The men had been charged with facilitating illegal entry. The court rejected the Crown's argument that asylum-seekers arriving with false documents were automatically illegal entrants, acknowledging that most people fleeing their own country cannot obtain genuine documents.

Independent 15.4.92.

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