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'Bogus' asylum seekers? The ethics of truth-telling in the asylum system

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By Chloe Lewis, James Souter, Kjartan Sveinsson, Azeemah Kola
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The British tabloids and the Home Office are united by their assumption that asylum seekers who lie during their claims are undeserving of protection. Yet this view runs contrary both to widely held moral principle and refugee law. In 2007, the British Home Office refused asylum to a Congolese individual who claimed to have been persecuted by militia.
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