Rwanda Migrant Deportations Ruled Lawful By High Court In Defeat For Campaigners
Controversial government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful, the High Court has ruled.
The Home Office won a legal challenge against its policy to send would-be migrants, including those who reached the UK after crossing the Channel in small boats, to the African country.
Challenges were brought against the policy announced by then-Home Secretary Priti Patel in April, which she described as a "world-first agreement" with the east African nation in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the Channel.
Lord Justice Lewis, sitting with Mr Justice Swift, dismissed the challenges against the policy as a whole, but ruled in favour of eight asylum seekers, finding the government had acted wrongly in their individual cases.
"The court has ruled that it is lawful for the Government to make arrangements for moving asylum seekers to Rwanda and for respective asylum claims to be processed in Rwanda instead of within the United Kingdom," Lord Justice Lewis said in a summary of the decision read aloud in court.
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, intervened in the dispute, claiming that Rwanda "lacks irreducible minimum components of an accessible, reliable, fair and efficient asylum system" and that the policy would seriously increase the danger of violations of the Refugee Convention.
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