Tag: Rwanda
Rwanda ruling: Rishi Sunak welcomes High Court ruling
The High Court has ruled that the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful.
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Rwanda asylum seekers: 'Fighting to survive'
The BBC goes to Rwanda as a court rules on the UK's plan to send asylum seekers there.
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Rwanda migrant plan is lawful, High Court rules
The government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been deemed lawful by the High Court.
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Ex-Tory home secretary Amber Rudd says Rwanda plan is 'brutal'
Amber Rudd says a scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is also "impractical" and will not happen.
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Rwanda three-week removals plan revealed
Asylum seekers could be sent to Rwanda three weeks after their arrival in the UK, High Court hears.
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Rwanda migrant flights plan legally viable, government lawyers say
The government is facing a highly unusual five-day legal challenge to the policy involving at least 10 migrants, campaign groups Care4Calais and Deten [...]
Priti Patel insists Rwanda is safe despite adviser’s torture warning
The official was looking at revisions to the government's report into Rwanda's human rights record and in an email sent to colleagues on 26 April - tw [...]
Rwanda asylum plan: UK ministers partially lose Rwanda secrecy bid
The High Court says some of the advice given to ministers must be disclosed as part of a major case.
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Rwanda asylum scheme: Warning over rights record before UK flight
Ministers were advised Rwandan regime tortures opponents weeks before the first flight was due to go.
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U.S. Urges Rwanda and Congo to End Support for Warring Militias
KIGALI, Rwanda — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that he had urged the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to [...]
Rwanda migrant scheme: No evidence that UK policy deters migrants, say MPs
"One explanation for [the increase in crossings] may be attributed to scaremongering from people traffickers, that because of new regulations coming i [...]
Rwanda asylum plan: I will defend scheme to Prince Charles – PM
The prime minister says he will explain the "obvious merits" of the scheme if the Prince of Wales raises it.
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Plan to reverse European Court Rwanda rulings
Ministers could ignore the European Court of Human Rights asylum-seekers injunction, under proposals.
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Rwanda asylum plan: European court intervention was wrong, says Raab
The justice secretary says the grounding of the flight strengthens the case for reforming human rights laws.
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Cooper: Rwanda flights policy shambles and shameful
The home secretary has no one but herself to blame for the lack of Rwanda asylum flights, Yvette Cooper has told MPs.The shadow home secretary said th [...]