asylum

A UK high court judge ruled Tuesday that asylum seekers can continue to be housed in a hotel northeast of London which was the target of anti-immigration protests earlier this year.

It was also said there was a "continuing need" to house asylum seekers with pending asylum claims, "so that the Home Secretary can fulfil her statutory duties".

He is a patron of the Sanctuary Runners group which is made up of Irish citizens, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.

Mahmood is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month.

But some victims, whose churches had been torched and relatives killed, have described the violence as a Christian genocide—a term echoed by Nigerian politicians representing them, and some Nigerians requesting asylum in the U.S.