British Law Lords rule British immigration checks at Ruzyne were discriminatory
The UK's highest court institution has ruled that British government
regulations that prevented some Czechs - namely Romanies - from travelling
to Great Britain in 2001 were discriminatory on racial grounds. The Law
Lord's verdict concerns controls which were carried out by British
immigration officials at Prague's Ruzyne airport in July 2001 in an effort
to lower the number of those seeking asylum in Britain. In 2002, the
British human rights organisation Liberty lodged a complaint against the
checks on behalf of six Roma and the European Centre for Roma Rights. A
lower level court and Great Britain's Supreme Court originally rejected
the complaint.
In response to the latest ruling, the British Home Office has replied it
had not meant to discriminate against anyone, adding that the measures in
place at the time were meant to prevent abuse of the asylum and
immigration system.
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