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Belfast Council to offer free leisure centre memberships for asylum seekers

Asylum seekers have an allowance of £39 per week, half of the normal basic weekly universal credit in Northern Ireland

Belfast Live

Government considering making drink spiking specific criminal offence

Campaigners say it would make it easier to catch offenders

Bristol Post

Passport hold-ups look set to continue into summer holidays

Average wait time is rising - but the good news is most people are getting their passports back will within the 10-week deadline

Chronicle Live

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British Army veteran ‘living in fear’ as he fights deportation threat after 20 years living in UK

Father-of-two Joram Nechironga hopes to launch judicial review against Home Office decision

The Independent UK

Julian Assange: what is Australia’s position on his extradition, and what options does it have?

Anthony Albanese ‘stands by’ his opposition to pursuit of WikiLeaks co-founder but is unlikely to take a more forthright public position

The Guardian - AU

British Army veteran ‘living in fear’ as he fights deportation threat

Joram Nechironga, who served in Iraq, is hoping to launch a judicial review against the Home Office decision.

The Independent UK

GPS tagging of migrants appears to contradict Home Office guidance

Document published this year does not mention asylum seekers as priority group for ‘intrusive policy’

The Guardian - UK

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British history should not be treated as a ‘soft play area’, says David Olusoga

Writer and broadcaster says teaching about the past must not be a way of making people feel good about themselves

The Guardian - UK

Outrage over scheme to electronically tag asylum seekers arriving in UK

There is no evidence asylum seekers are ‘absconding’ but Boris Johnson insists pilot must go ahead

The Guardian - UK

Up to 1,000 GPs could be deported as Home Office threatens to force them out of UK

New recruits have been sent letters warning of their 'removal' just weeks after completing training. Health Education England fears 1,000 temporary visas will expire by March 2023

Daily Mirror

Migrant care workers came to help the UK. Now they’re trapped in debt bondage

Investigation: Britain called out to workers around the world to ease a staff crisis. But many have to pay thousands in illegal fees to recruitment agencies

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson says he is confident of the legality of UK's Rwanda migrant plan

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he was confident of the legality of his government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda after the first flight was blocked at the last minute by the European human rights court.

Reuters

Boris Johnson defends ‘draconian’ plan to use electronic tags on asylum seekers

Critics have called the policy ‘draconian and punitive’

The Independent UK

People arriving in UK on small boats to be electronically tagged

Rights campaigners say ‘appalling’ pilot scheme treats those fleeing conflict and persecution as criminals

The Guardian - UK

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Wales Online

People arriving in UK illegally to be tagged in new Home Office trial

Those tagged will have to regularly report in person to authorities, may be subject to a curfew or excluded from certain locations, and failure to comply could see them returned to detention or prosecuted

The Independent UK

Home Office begins 12-month trial electronically tagging Channel migrants

New figures have revealed the number of people crossing the Channel to reach Britain this year has passed 11,000.

The National (Scotland)

‘Let me see my father before it’s too late': New Scot pleads with Home Office

A SYRIAN woman who came to Scotland as a refugee nine years ago has made a plea to the Home Office to allow her seriously ill father to join her and…

Bristol Post

Drink spiking campaign in Bristol sees reported incidents rocket

Almost 200 cases have been recorded in last six months compared with 39 in 2019

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The Independent UK

Refugees to be electronically tagged and prosecuted if they don’t comply under ‘draconian’ Home Office plan

Ministers accused of treating people seeking refuge as criminals in ‘dehumanising’ move

WEKU

Will Julian Assange be extradited to the U.S.? Where his case stands now

The WikiLeaks founder will face 18 federal counts — whenever he's brought to a U.S. courthouse in Virginia. For now, he has at least one more avenue of appeal.

The Guardian - UK

Sadiq Khan says new Met commissioner must admit to force’s failings

London mayor says appointee must understand extent of ‘cultural and organisational problems’ in Met

The Guardian - UK

Female Labour MPs call on PM to scrap new rape victim guidance

More than 100 MPs write to Boris Johnson saying guidance will lead survivors to avoid seeking therapy

Manchester Evening News

The Northern Agenda: Is Boris Johnson at the races?

Read the Northern Agenda newsletter for Friday 17th June 2022

The National (Scotland)

Alison Thewliss has perfect response to Rwanda plan supporter on Question Time

ALISON Thewliss shot down an angry audience member on Question Time with three words after he alleged "rapists and murderers" were coming…

Al Jazeera

UK approves US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

The Home Office says his extradition is approved but Assange can still appeal the decision. WikiLeaks says he will.

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