Euro Med Monitor The UK is stepping up its long list of draconian and inhuman measures aimed at curbing small boats’ crossing in the English Channel, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement today. We strongly condemn the latest proposal of sentencing asylum seekers to up to four years in prison only due to their forced method of arrival. Such policies are aimed at creating a differential treatment with less rights and less guarantees for people seeking a safe refuge through desperate means. Last Tuesday, the British government introduced in parliament its new Nationality and Borders Bill, described by the Home Office as containing “the most radical changes to the broken asylum system in decades”.