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LONDON: The UK Home Office could confront a legal battle due to its plans to shift Afghan refugees from a London hotel and send them hundreds of kilometers from their children’s schools and jobs, local media reported on Wednesday.
Future of Afghan refugees in UK
A lawyer of Afghan refugees said that the plan to relocate his clients from Kensington to a hotel in Yorkshire, taking children away from their schools and people away from jobs and could be challenged in the court.
The Guardian reported that the new move comes despite the refugee families having no guarantee of school, or jobs in their new location. Chief of strategic litigation at Shelter Jo Underwood said that the Home Office knows that they are looking at legal action if the matter cannot be solved out of court.
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The families of Afghan refugee arrived in the UK in August 2021 following the Taliban capture of Kabul. They were given entry into UK as they had worked with authorities during British operations in Afghanistan.
Some of the refugees said that they would not go as their children would suffer again by being forced to drop out of their educational institutions. They said that they would refuse to go to new location because their children suffered a lot due to war and displacement in the past.
Afghan refugees have been staging protest demonstration in front of Downing Street since last Thursday.
