UK ethnic minorities face a breathtaking legal onslaught

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Financial Times
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19/1/2022
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UK ethnic minorities face a breathtaking legal onslaught

This month, as a series of new bills edge closer to becoming law, ethnic minority communities across the UK face the most significant and sustained threat to their civil rights in recent memory.

Dr Halima Begum, our CEO, on the triple-whammy of the policing bill, the elections bill and the borders bill which risk deepening social disparities suffered by minority groups. Together these laws would jeopardise the rights of ethnic minority voters to cast their ballots, to engage in public protest, and condemn every dual-nationality Briton to the threat of being stripped of their citizenship without due process or prior warning.

Read the full article with the Financial Times.

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