Chair of parliamentary reparations group hits out at law preventing return of Parthenon marbles and Benin bronzes

An MP has said suspected thefts at the British Museum have exposed the “insulting ridiculousness” of its refusal to return contested artefacts to their country of origin on security grounds.

Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on Afrikan reparations, believes the 1963 law preventing the return of objects such as the Parthenon marbles and the Benin bronzes should be changed.

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