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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Home Office refuses to apologise to 12 innocent asylum seekers wrongly jailed for steering Channel dinghies

PA Wire

The Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have refused to apologise to at least 12 innocent asylum seekers who were jailed for crimes they did not commit.

The men, from countries including Iraq and Iran, were all prosecuted for “facilitating illegal immigration” by steering their dinghies across the English Channel.

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