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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

UK plans to rewrite human rights law; critics cry foul

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

The British government on Wednesday unveiled plans for a Bill of Rights it says will strengthen free speech and the power of Parliament — but that critics argue will rip up human rights protections for ordinary people.

The government published the bill days after courts in the U.K. and Europe, on human rights grounds, stopped Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative administration deporting people seeking asylum in Britain to Rwanda.

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