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Human Rights and Wrongs

The Reith Lectures

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The Human Rights of Shamima Begin

I don't think that human rights actually has any direct bearing on her situation, either before or after she was deprived of her citizenship. The Human Rights Act would not help her. It might have helped her if she was resident in this country, because the right to deport her would have engaged her Article 8 rights,. But she's not in this country. And it's very difficult to see that Article 8 is going to help her where she is. I'm frankly surprised at the suggestion that she could be regarded as the citizen of a country with which she has never had anything to do. That's the government's position, and I've no doubt that it will be tested in the courts in

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