The United Nations has issued an injunction stating that Archie Battersbee’s life-support is to be kept on while it considers his case, the organisation has said.
It comes after the 12-year-old’s mother and father, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, submitted an application to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to delay the withdrawal of life support from their son while a complaint is investigated.
Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, believe he is brain-stem dead and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.
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