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The United Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) in its report has faulted the UK government’s failure to intervene and assist British nationals held hostage or in detention in foreign countries across the world. The Committee stated that the UK Government has failed to prevent “Abductor states” from “weaponizing [the] citizenship of British nationals for geopolitical ends”.
The British High Court has made an unconventional ruling in a significant human rights case centred on Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a British national and the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu had approached the court to challenge the United Kingdom's government for not defending him despite being a citizen against the Nigerian government.
“Kanu’s family is represented by John Halford and Shirin Marker of Bindmans LLP, together with Charlotte Kilroy QC of Blackstone Chambers and Tatyana Eatwell of Doughty Street Chambers."