Immigrants deported to Rwanda from the UK will find “safety and security” and be treated with “dignity and respect,” the African country’s high commissioner to the UK said on Sunday.
It comes as charities are appealing the English High Court’s decision not to ground the first flight to Rwanda that’s due to take off on Tuesday.
The British government signed a £120 million ($146 million) deal in April allowing the UK to put some illegal immigrants on one-way flights to Rwanda, where they can be granted asylum or given access to other routes of settling down.
But the plan has been met with fierce opposition, with charities trying to remove people from the planned flights and stop the flights altogether….