A British judge has rejected an attempt to stop a scheduled flight more More than 30 asylum seekers on a one-way Trip to Rwanda next week.
Judge Jonathan Swift denied a request by A group of asylum seekers for An injunction establishing the planned flight for Tuesday.
Although judgment, further law challenges for Britain new Immigration to Rwanda policy Scheduled in Coming days.
The flight is first He is set to leave under a controversial deal between the UK and the East African country. Britain plans to send immigrants who arrive in United Kingdom as stowaways or in small Boats to Rwanda, where their asylum applications will be processed. If they succeed, they will stay in African country.
a group of Asylum seekers have applied to a court in the UK on Friday to stop the British government who sent it on a one-way A trip to Rwanda, arguing that the controversial plan is not safe.
The Four Claims, supported by refugee groups and UK border staff trade union Among an unspecified number of immigrants who It was said by the British government They will be deported to Rwanda. Refugee groups say the largest group includes people Flee from Syria and Afghanistan who receipt in Britain via the English Channel on small boats.
UN officials say like move from the United Kingdom government violating international Refugee Convention. human rights groups call Deal – for which the UK paid Rwanda 120 million pounds ($158 million) up front – impractical, inhumane and wasteful of British taxpayers money.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Reda Hussain, said: system Not safe. “
Laura Dubinsky, lawyer representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said the refugees who were sent to Rwanda under the law program They were in risk of “Severe irreparable damage.” She said the agency had “serious concerns about Rwanda’s ability” to handle the arrivals.
James Wilson of detention procedures, one of Interested groups in case, he said government He was “a blind eye to many clear risks and violations of human rights that ( policy) would inflict on people refugee status request “.
British government argue in policy he is in The public benefit. It seeks to distinguish between refugees who arrive By authorized methods, such as programs to me help people Flee from Afghanistan or Ukraine and who are they says arrive By illegal means, including dangerous crossings of the channel run by smugglers.
The government says refugees welcome who Come to Britain by the approved methods but she wants to put it criminal smuggling gangs out of business.
More than 28,000 migrants entered the UK through the Channel last year and up from 8500 in 2020. Dozens have died, including 27 people in November when one boat capsized.
