UK cant deport asylum seekers> EUSSR says = 'inhumane or degrading treatment'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349477/UK-deport-asylum-seekers-Greece.html

Britain was stripped of the power to deport hundreds of asylum seekers yesterday in a far-reaching ruling by European human rights judges.
The judgment condemned the treatment of refugees by Greece and effectively forbade countries from returning asylum seekers there as they are subjected to ‘inhumane or degrading treatment’.
It means that for the first time human rights rules stop Britain from sending deportees to a fellow European Union country.

Ruling: A EU judgement has condemned the treatment of refugees in Greece - and ruled that Britain can't send asylum seekers back to Greece
Greece is visited by nearly two million British tourists each year – and also enjoys the power under EU law to demand extradition of British citizens it suspects of crime within its borders.
An immigration watchdog warned the ruling is likely to mean thousands of asylum seekers will make their way to Britain from Greece, or will say they have come from Greece, because authorities will have no power to return them.
The judgment, by the European Court of Human Rights, will also act as a fresh constraint on Britain’s right to remove individuals considered undesirable.
Under a 15-year-old ruling by the Strasbourg-based court, terrorists and other criminals cannot be sent back to their own countries if the courts consider torture may be used against them.
Britain’s Border Agency stopped deporting asylum seekers who came into Europe through Greece last September in anticipation of the ruling. There are currently 1,300 asylum seekers thought to have come to Britain through Greece who could, under EU rules, be sent back to Athens.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said yesterday: ‘We are disappointed with the judgment.
‘The United Kingdom does not, however, currently return asylum seekers to Greece, although we will continue to keep the situation under review.’
Sir Andrew Green, of the MigrationWatch think-tank, said: ‘This opens a gateway into Europe and Britain for asylum seekers.
‘Future asylum seekers will enter the EU through Greece safe in the knowledge we cannot send them back.
‘Their cases will have to be settled here at the expense of the British taxpayer.’