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Fact check: Migrant returns, smoking stats and AI ‘Syria’ image

Round up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

Evening Standard

Alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo denies claims and criticises ‘political climate’

Yang Tengbo said it was ‘entirely untrue’ to describe him as a spy.

Evening Standard

Yang Tengbo statement in full: Suspected Chinese spy breaks silence after being named at heart of scandal

Yang Tengbo, who can now be named after a ruling at the Royal Courts of Justice, said he has ‘done nothing wrong or unlawful’

The Independent UK

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Yvette Cooper urged to end ‘cruel’ pause on Syrian asylum decisions

Asylum seekers say they are in limbo and charities have expressed ‘deep concern’ as claims paused after Assad regime’s fall

The Guardian - UK

Starmer accused of mimicking Tory ‘hostile environment’ over migration as 13,500 removed from UK

The government announced that nearly 13,500 migrants have been removed from Britain since the election

The Independent UK

Deportations reach five-year high despite concerns of rights groups

Campaigners fear lives could be put at risk as government sets record number of deportations

The Guardian - UK

Mother barred from hugging son before detention centre death sparks coroner’s call for change

Exclusive: Frank Ospina’s mother told an inquest she ‘was desperate’ to give her son a hug but was unable to. He went on to take his own life in a Heathrow immigration removal centre

The Independent UK

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Winter Appeal: ‘I felt dizzy … I started to feel like I was going to starve in London’

How the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’ policy drove a blind asylum seeker to the brink of despair — as £500,000 from the Julia Rausing Trust takes our Winter Appeal past £2million

Evening Standard

Former Europe minister blames Home Office for blocking Brexit reset progress

Denis MacShane has hit out at the Home Office over blocks to agreeing a youth mobility scheme

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers to be housed in disused care homes and student digs

Home Office plans to find 800 new accommodation sites and cut bill that has risen to £5.5m a day

The Guardian - UK

Syrians applying for UK asylum or resettlement: Key numbers

Record number of Syrians applied for asylum in the year to September 2024

Evening Standard

UK would like to facilitate return of refugees to Syria, says minister

Angela Eagle says about 6,500 asylum claims have been suspended as ministers assess fallout from end of Assad regime

The Guardian - UK

Met Police boss fears funding cuts could lead to loss of 2,300 officers

A report by Sir Mark Rowley explained the Met ‘will be forced to make tough choices to reduce the service we offer Londoners’

Evening Standard

Germany tighten laws on people-smugglers in ‘action plan’ with UK

UK home secretary Yvette Cooper says the deal with Berlin will boost both countries’ border security

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Evening Standard

Germany to tighten criminal law as people-smuggling ‘action plan’ agreed with UK

Berlin confirmed plans to make it a criminal offence to ‘facilitate the smuggling of migrants to the UK’ as part of the agreement.

The Guardian - UK

Husband and wife to be forced apart by Home Office deportation flight

Man scheduled to depart for Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving wife in UK, but believes his life will be at risk

The Independent UK

Syrians crowd Assad’s most notorious torture prison in hunt for missing loved ones

It comes as Britain says collapse of Assad is humiliation for Iran and Russia but doesn’t guarantee peace. Israel bombs chemical weapons facilities over fears of dangerous power vacuum

The Independent UK

UK to pause Syrian asylum claims after collapse of Assad regime

Foreign secretary David Lammy said it was “premature” to discuss resettlement schemes for Syrian refugees

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Evening Standard

Home Office pauses decisions on Syrian asylum claims after Assad’s fall

Officials will ‘assess the current situation’ before making decisions on claims from the country.

The Guardian - UK

Residents could be barred from UK due to eVisa confusion, say rights groups

Home Office has postponed transition to digital visas but campaigners fear ongoing technical problems could cause travel chaos

The Guardian - UK

Home Office says only half of UK asylum decisions meet its quality standards

Rishi Sunak’s push to clear backlog of claims is driving huge increase in legal appeals, costs and harm to applicants

The Guardian - UK

Agency that brought heavily indebted Indonesian workers to UK loses licence

Exclusive: AG Recruitment found not to have acted ‘in a fit and proper manner’ by labour exploitation watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Home Office trial doubles time refugees have to find home before eviction

Charities and politicians praise increase to 56 days but press for move to be made permanent

Evening Standard

'I was so terrified of my stalker lover I slept with a screwdriver under my pillow'

Whether on or offline, stalking is equally terrifying in different ways, says Lucy Holden. She reflects on the importance of new sanctions announced by the Home Office that give victims the ‘right to know’ who their abuser is

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

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