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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

UK judge temporarily blocks government plan to send a migrant back to France

France Britain Migrants - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A British judge temporarily blocked the government from sending an asylum-seeker who crossed the English Channel back to France, delaying the first deportation under an agreement between London and Paris.

The 25-year-old Eritrean man was due to leave Britain on Wednesday on a commercial flight. But after his lawyers appealed, High Court judge Clive Sheldon granted “a short period of interim relief” so the man can present evidence to support his claim that he is a victim of human trafficking.

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