UK fights judges on expelling foreigners

EUROPEAN judges must stop blocking Rwanda-style deportation flights and limit how human rights laws can be used, according to the UK and 26 other countries.

- BY MICHAEL KNOWLES Home Affairs Editor

A joint statement said states should not be prevented from cooperating with third countries regarding asylum and returns.

And the European Convention on Human Rights must be reformed, they said.

Foreign criminals have successfully argued they would be mistreated in overseas prisons and their family lives would suffer if deported.