Sweden's hardline Brexit deportations raise human rights questions

In the years since Britain's departure from the European Union, a quiet but consequential human drama has unfolded in Sweden, where 2,490 British nationals have been deported — a third of all such expulsions across the entire EU. Among them are elderly widows, dementia patients, and long-term residents who built their lives in good faith, only to find themselves ensnared in the machinery of a withdrawal agreement whose promises of protection have proven, for many, to be hollow. The case raises an enduring question that no treaty language fully resolves: when nations renegotiate their relations