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Next PM must abandon ‘unlawful and reckless’ Rwanda deportation policy, Amnesty says
Human rights activists outside Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow protest against the Tory government's Rwanda deportation policy

THE next prime minister must abandon the “unlawful and reckless” policy of sending refugees to Rwanda, Amnesty International has said, amid warnings of the African nation’s “troubling” human rights record. 

Ahead of the new Tory leader being revealed, the human rights organisation warned that Home Secretary Priti Patel “should never have led us to this point” where asylum-seekers face being deported on a one-way ticket to the African country. 

Amnesty International UK refugee and migrant rights director Steve Valdez-Symonds said: “This shameful policy was always a profound error of judgement.

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