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Please protect the human rights act in the UK

Submitted on Sunday 24th January 2021

Rejected on Thursday 4th February 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Please protect the human rights act in the UK

Petition Details

To protect the HRA as it stands in the UK, to ensure that asylum seekers' human rights are respected and that they are not deported, and to ensure that the UK's opposition to the death penalty at home and abroad remains steadfast.

Additional Information

The UK must continue to champion human rights and not use Brexit as a chance to deport asylum seekers who would face torture and the death penalty at home. . “Evidence from around the world has shown that the death penalty has no unique deterrent effect on crime.”(Amnesty) . The death penalty is abhorrent and ineffective on moral and legal grounds and the UK's opposition to it is now threatened by the possibility of changes to the HRA; then amnesty quote


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/551305

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