{"id":85061,"date":"2026-02-17T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85061"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:11:00","slug":"over-70-asylum-seekers-to-receive-compensation-after-phones-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/17\/over-70-asylum-seekers-to-receive-compensation-after-phones-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 70 asylum seekers to receive compensation after phones seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WrGPd.img?w=534&amp;h=426&amp;m=6&amp;x=1766&amp;y=290&amp;s=318&amp;d=318\" alt=\"The Home Office, led by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, must 'use all reasonable endeavours' to contact those affected (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The government will compensate more than 70 asylum seekers whose mobile phones were unlawfully taken upon arrival in Britain, the High Court has ruled.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/over-70-asylum-seekers-to-receive-compensation-after-phones-seized\/ar-AA1Wtn6p?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69940ec9ce0c4e9297d7ec5cc6506270&amp;ei=22&amp;cvpid=699411e1e4164e958741b39ad6bfd552\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The government will compensate more than 70 asylum seekers whose mobile phones were unlawfully taken upon arrival in Britain, the High Court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Migrants-channel-crossing.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85062,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85061\/revisions\/85062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}