Published 19 December 2022 at 12.54
Foreign. A court in Great Britain has decided that the government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is legal – despite the fact that the European Court of Human Rights previously stopped the deportations, reports CNN.
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A group of organisations, asylum seekers and a civil service union had questioned the legality of the plan, which would see asylum seekers deemed to have come to the UK illegally sent to Rwanda to have their asylum claims processed at home in the third world instead.
The court has ruled that the government has the right to make such arrangements, but it has also criticized Home Affairs Minister Suella Braverman for failing to adequately investigate the individual circumstances of people to be relocated under the plan.
The government must now first decide whether there is something in the individual's special circumstances which means that his asylum application should be processed in the UK, or if there are other reasons why he should not be moved to Rwanda, the judgment states.< /p>
The eight cases affected by the appeal will be referred back to the British Home Office because Braverman and her officials so-called a try them according to the court's instructions – then the plane to Rwanda can finally take off south.
The first flight to Rwanda was supposed to take off on June 14, but the European Court of Human Rights stepped in at the eleventh hour and stopped the departure . Months of legal battles have stalled the program in the months since.
Britain says it will pay Rwanda 120 million pounds (about 1.5 billion kroner) over the next five years to fund the program.
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