THE GUARDIAN: 'Discredited' test used on two in five Syrian asylum seekers in UK

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Yaron Matras, a professor of linguistics at the University of Manchester, said: “There’s been suggestions from academics and activists that the use of language analysis is a political way of excluding people. I’ve certainly found there is that risk because there’s a lack of diligence when commissioning private contractors to do that.”

Matras, an expert in Arabic and Kurdish, has provided testimony in court and helped overturn more than a dozen decisions in the past three years where the Home Office relied on language analysis to refuse asylum.