The London High Court rejects a bid to ground a controversial flight due to take more than 30 asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda next week, but has given the migrants permission for a last-minute appeal.
The first flight to take migrants arriving illegally in Britain to Rwanda can go ahead next week, the High Court in London ruled, after a judge dismissed campaigners' attempts to win an injunction to stop it.The flight is the first due to leave under a controversial deportation deal between the UK and the East African nationThe government hopes the plan will deter the Channel crossingssaying it was unsafe, but the court said next Tuesday's first planned flight could take place.
The government's plan has led to an outcry from human rights groups, opposition ministers as well as some in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party. Mr Hussain said the government had made "misleading and inaccurate" claims that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had given it the green light, and that it was acting on false assurances about Rwanda's ability to offer protection to asylum seekers and process their claims.Government lawyer Mathew Gullick said the criticisms and concerns were backward-looking, and did not reflect how the migrants would be treated.
The government hopes the plan will deter the Channel crossings, although more than 3,500 people have reached Britain in small boats since the middle of April, when the Rwanda scheme was unveiled, according to government figures.
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