European human rights judges have ruled that Theresa May’s policy of stripping British terror suspects of their citizenship while abroad to bar them from returning to Britain is lawful. Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) unanimously threw out a claim by a Sudan-born terror suspect who took UK citizenship in 2000 that depriving him of his British passport violated his right to a private and family life. The Strasbourg judges said May, the home secretary at the time, had “acted swiftly and diligently, and in accordance with the law”. The Strasbourg human rights ruling is likely to encourage Home Office ministers to make greater use of their power to exclude terror suspects even if they are British citizens. The figures show that one in three terror suspects arrested in Britain last year was white, making up 91 out of a total 260 individuals held on suspicion of terrorism-related offences.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2017 10:50 UTC