Former Justice Secretary: Foreign offenders should be told to 'sling their hook'

Georgia Pearce

By Georgia Pearce


Published: 19/02/2025

- 10:16

Former Justice Secretary Alex Chalk has called for the UK to challenge the European Court of Human Rights over restrictions on deporting foreign prisoners to countries like Afghanistan.

Speaking to GB News, Chalk questioned whether returning offenders to certain regions of Afghanistan truly constituted "torture or human or degrading treatment" as defined by the ECHR.

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