A coalition comprised of activist human rights organisations and a union has submitted papers at the High Court in London on Wednesday to get an injunction to halt next week’s planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda.
In April this year, fuelled by record numbers of migrants crossing the Channel on small boats, the British government signed a memorandum of understanding with Rwanda to set up a new procedure for transferring asylum seekers to the east African country, where they can be granted asylum or given access to other routes of settling down.
The first flight taking the migrants to Rwanda is expected next week….