Court rules against Home Office in asylum seeker kidnapping case

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Department had claimed that being kidnapped for ransom was not exploitation of trafficking victims in case of Syrian man abducted in Libya The court of appeal has rejected claims by the Home Office that being kidnapped for ransom is not exploitation of trafficking victims. The ruling means that many people who have been kidnapped for ransom, whom officials have previously excluded from being victims of exploitation under trafficking rules, will now have to have these claims considered. They may be eligible for the support and recovery package trafficking victims are entitled to. Continue reading...

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