Political stakes are high for ministers but refugees say their lives are at risk if policy is greenlit
Asylum seekers in Folkestone, Kent. The Home Office is appealing against a ruling by the court of appeal that the Rwanda policy is unlawful.Asylum seekers in Folkestone, Kent. The Home Office is appealing against a ruling by the court of appeal that the Rwanda policy is unlawful.The UK government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda had generated controversy even before the former home secretary Priti Patel signed a deal with the east African country in April last year sealing the deal.
On Monday, a case examining the legality of the policy reaches the UK’s highest court, the supreme court. The political stakes for ministers are high but the asylum seekers threatened with being forcibly removed to Rwanda say their lives are at stake if the policy is greenlit.by a majority of two to one. The Home Office is appealing against that ruling.
There are also appeals by some of the asylum seekers threatened with deportation to Rwanda, who argue that the home secretary failed to look properly at Rwanda’s procedures and whether there was a risk of ill-treatment there or refoulement – being forcibly returned to their home country where their life might be at risk.There have been conflicting reports. Initially a figure of a few hundred people was floated, then the government said there was no ceiling on numbers.
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