STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- The European Court of Human Rights has blocked the deportation of four Serbian children from Sweden after their mother was sentenced to prison.
The court ordered Sweden to allow the children to remain until Sept. 16 and said the Swedish government must give its position on the deportation order, The Local reported. The Swedish Migration Board, which ordered the children deported in July, told the Soderhamns-Kuriren it plans another review of the case.
The mother was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of the children's father and given an eight-year term. The children have been wards of the state since October and have been staying with relatives.
The children, ages 6 to 14, have no family in Serbia and would be likely to be placed in an orphanage.
Officials in Soderhamn on the east coast have legal responsibility for the children and protested the migration board's deportation order.
