Al Jazeera reported on Tuesday that the European Court of Human Rights issued a last-minute injunction to suspend the deportation of British asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday issued a last-minute order to block the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, Al Jazeera reported.
The ban prevented the first flight from departing for Rwanda. The plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been heavily criticized by opponents, charities and religious leaders, who call it inhumane, forcing the government to confront faced a series of legal challenges before the London courts sought to block the flight from departing.
According to Al Jazeera, a small number of asylum seekers will depart from an airbase in southwest England, but just before the plane is scheduled to depart on Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (European Court of Human Rights) ECHR) issued an order to prevent their deportation. . “I have always said that this policy will not be easy to enforce and I am disappointed that legal challenges and last-minute statements have prevented today’s flight from taking off,” Al Jazeera quoted the interior minister as saying. , Priti Patel.
“It is surprising that the European Court of Human Rights has intervened despite previous successes that have been repeated in our national courts,” said Ms. Patel.
The Home Secretary said the government would not be discouraged in its deportation plan and would prepare for the next robbery.
Over the past few days, at least 30 people on the first flight have successfully argued that they should not be deported to Rwanda for health or human rights reasons.
The ECHR decision on one of the deported men, an Iraqi, states that he “should not be deported until the expiration of three weeks after the final internal decision has been made in the judicial process.” ongoing judicial review”.
The High Court in London must hold this judicial review in July to rule on the legality of the scheme.
“The last ticket was cancelled. NO ONE COME TO RWANDA,” charity Care4Calais, which has filed the lawsuit on behalf of several refugees, said on Twitter.
The government says its £120 million ($144 million) deal with Rwanda to accept asylum seekers from Britain will undermine the ring-smuggling business model. 4,444 judges in the UK rejected an appeal against the deportation on Monday.
Those deported include Albanians, Iraqis, Iranians and Syrians, Care4Calais said. UN refugee
head Filippo Grandi earlier denounced the UK government’s policy as “completely wrong” and said the country should not “export its responsibilities to another country”.
Church of England leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, have also criticized the expulsion plan as “one of the things that puts us to shame as a nation”.
“Our Christian heritage should inspire us to treat asylum seekers with compassion, fairness and justice, as we have for centuries,” Welby and 24 directors another column in the Times on Tuesday. “This unethical policy puts Britain to shame.”
The British government insists policy is needed to prevent an overly frequent flood of refugees and migrants across the Channel from France.
