Deportation of sick child halted

KARLSRUHE - Germany's highest court has blocked on humanitarian grounds the planned deportation of a sick child to Lebanon

KARLSRUHE - Germany's highest court has blocked on humanitarian grounds the planned deportation of a sick child to Lebanon. A lower court had ordered the boy (3), who has to be fed by stomach tube because of a genetic defect, to seat there when his Kurdish family's asylum application was rejected.

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