In a letter sent to French MPs on 8 March and published on Tuesday 13 March, Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, expressed his concerns about the draft “asylum and immigration” law in France and called on the parliamentarians not to vote for it as it currently stands.
Several provisions are flagged up: the reduction of the period in which asylum requests can be submitted from 120 to 90 days and the15 day reduction in the period in which an appeal...