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Amnesty condemns UK asylum package

01 May 1996

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Amnesty International has condemned the Howard-Lilley package as "the demolition of the right to asylum" in a hard-hitting report. AI's analysis of the Asylum and Immigration Bill and the social security regulations concludes that, taken together, the measures amount to an abdication of the UK's international responsibilities. Effective access to existing legal safeguards for refugees will be diminished and the denial of the means of sustenance may render meaningless such safeguards, it says, adding that the government has relied on bogus arguments and used bogus statistics to mislead parliament and the public. Slamming the door: the demolition of the right to asylum in the UK, by Amnesty International UK, London, April 1996, 52pp.

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