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Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet
BBC ^ | March 20, 2026 | Jennifer McKiernan

Posted on 08/22/2026 1:18:09 AM PDT by grundle

Asylum seekers have been told that rape, sexual harassment and domestic abuse are illegal in the UK, in guidance for new arrivals published by the Home Office.

A nine-page online booklet covers respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality, with guidance on how UK laws and customs may be different from their home countries.

The Conservatives said any asylum seekers breaking UK law should be deported and Reform said the publication showed the government "knows that they are a menace".

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the government had "a very clear principle that if you break UK law, you will be removed from the country".

He said the number of removals of illegal immigrants from the UK "are significantly up" and that he was working to ensure that foreign national offenders are removed from the prison system.

He added: "It follows that if we're taking this approach, it's made explicitly clear what the UK law is and what the societal norms of the UK are and that's why this approach is being taken."

According to the latest Home Office figures, a total of 93,525 people applied for asylum in the UK from April 2025 to March 2026, which was down by 12% on the same period in the previous year.

The booklet sets out how asylum seekers must understand UK law, because the consequences of breaking the law mean "you could get in trouble with the police, lose your asylum support, or it could affect your asylum claim."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: backwardculture; homeoffice; immigrants; uk
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To: grundle

More of a set of guidelines than a set of hard and fast rules.


21 posted on 08/22/2026 5:47:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: grundle

HANDBOOKS FOR INVADERS: HOW MODERN


22 posted on 08/22/2026 6:00:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: grundle

I guess that’s what you have to do when you allow uncivilized savages into your country who don’t understand that rape, murder, and domestic abuse are wrong.


23 posted on 08/22/2026 6:02:02 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: grundle

Don’t!


24 posted on 08/22/2026 6:30:31 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: grundle

Women here in America had better be paying attenrion.


25 posted on 08/22/2026 6:44:10 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: grundle

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26 posted on 08/22/2026 7:01:55 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: SaveFerris

I know something that’ll stop them permanently.

But the Brits surrender all of theirs


27 posted on 08/22/2026 7:03:35 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary )
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To: NFHale

News flash, Porcine DNA and RNA has been detected in All water and food supplies in the United States. Please advise all of the Muslims. THANK YOU.


28 posted on 08/22/2026 7:13:54 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: NFHale

Yeah


29 posted on 08/22/2026 7:14:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Machavelli

You’re a damn genius… 🤣🤣🤣🤣


30 posted on 08/22/2026 7:17:17 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary )
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To: grundle

I wonder if Rome published a similar booklet to give to the Goths in 476 AD?


31 posted on 08/22/2026 7:35:49 AM PDT by Gritty (Sharia is a hill somebody’s going to die on. In America it won't be Americans. - James H. Kunstler)
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To: grundle

And then one day, for no reason at all……


32 posted on 08/22/2026 7:49:49 AM PDT by nonliberal (Pinochet did nothing wrong.)
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To: grundle

“Hi there, little doggie, do you know that biting people because you have rabies is just not allowed?”

“Oh, you didn’t?”


33 posted on 08/22/2026 8:51:31 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: T.B. Yoits

If they don’t already believe that rape is a crime, you shouldn’t be bringing them in at all.


34 posted on 08/22/2026 9:04:51 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: grundle

>>>Asylum seekers have been told that rape, sexual harassment and domestic abuse are illegal in the UK, in guidance for new arrivals published by the Home Office.

Home Office just needs to read the Koran & it’s Hadiths!


35 posted on 08/22/2026 9:54:12 AM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: Adder

They certainly do do it in their own countries. They simply blame the female (or male as the case may be)and the victim becomes the guilty party and faces the death sentence for their immoral behavior that violates Sharia.


36 posted on 08/22/2026 11:08:30 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: grundle

Asylum Migration / Housing / Border Control Issues

Piddington residents have voted overwhelmingly in a symbolic referendum to secede from the UK, in protest against plans to house 1,256 male asylum seekers at a nearby former military base.

Sky’s Nick Martin reports from the Oxfordshire village at the centre of the row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skjXSuuS9is

‘We don’t feel safe’: Inside Piddington’s migrant revolt | The Daily T podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jqJUXmC9k


37 posted on 09/17/2026 2:43:34 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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