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Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the Government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, while a High Court hearing over the policy is ongoing. Picture date: Monday September 5, 2022.
MINISTERS had been repeatedly warned about Rwanda’s poor refugee and human rights record, including cases of asylum-seekers being “illegally deported” to Afghanistan, the High Court heard today.
Asylum-seekers and campaigners are challenging Home Office plans to deport refugees on a one-way ticket to the east African nation.
In written submissions, lawyers highlighted alarming evidence from the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR of refugees being turned away at Rwanda’s airports and returned to their country of origin, a crime known as refoulement.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
