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• Cruel Tory migration bill will erode basic right to seek asylum | Letters

  19-03-2023 17:31
  
  The impact the policy will have across the world can’t be ignored, says Oliver Lough. Plus letters from Derrick Joad, Nigel Griffin and David DuellRafael Behr is right to draw attention to both the unworkability and the inhumanity of the proposed illegal migration bill (‘Stop the boats’ shows how Britain is really being governed: by Tory campaign leaflet, 14 March). But it is also important to look beyond domestic concerns. At a time when displacement across borders due to war,
  
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• Arrest warrant will make Putin a pariah

  19-03-2023 11:35 via lawgazette.co.uk
  
  ’Reasonable grounds to believe that’ the Russian leader and commissioner for children’s rights bear criminal responsibility for the unlawful deportation and transfer of  children.
  
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• How Xi Jinping plans to use his meeting with war crimes suspect Vladimir Putin | Observer editorial

  19-03-2023 07:30
  
  The international criminal court has sent a clear message to China and shows the Russian people that their leader’s days in power are numberedThe welcome and overdue indictment of Vladimir Putin for war crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine confirms his position as a global outlaw. The decision by the international criminal court (ICC) is unlikely to lead to his arrest and trial in the foreseeable future. But it does ensure that, from now on, Russia’s president will be a criminal sus
  
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