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Deutsche Welle (30 December 2016)

Thirty-six children are launching a legal challenge against the British government for its handling of their asylum cases. The teenagers went to the UK when the Calais camp closed but have been told they can't stay.

Toufique Hossain, a lawyer representing 36 children who left the Calais migrant camp earlier this year, said Thursday they were seeking a judicial review in the High Court, accusing the British government of failing to live up to a promise to take in more unaccompanied children from the site in northern France.

The pledge was made before the squalid camp, known as the "jungle," was dismantled in October.

While most of the adult migrants were taken to other refugee centers across France, Britain vowed to allow some vulnerable children to apply for asylum, at its discretion.