UK must resettle refugees who arrived on Cyprus military base, says UN
Refugee agency contradicts MoD claims that 114 asylum seekers who arrived to British base after being abandoned by people smugglers are not UK responsibility
Refugees arriving at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, after being abandoned in fishing boats offshore. They were described as very well dressed and without any health concerns. Photograph: SAC Laura Wing/Ministry of Defence
Wednesday 21 October 2015
The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, has said that the UK is legally obliged to resettle more than a hundred Syrian refugees who arrived by boat at a British military base in Cyprus, contradicting claims from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that they were a Cypriot responsibility.
