Asylum

Rwanda's asylum system is so poor that it is biased against many people who could be genuine refugees, say lawyers for the United Nations' Refugee Agency. The warning came on the second day of the UK government's appeal over its…
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The UK government will appeal a court ruling deeming plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda unlawful, Rishi Sunak has said. Court of Appeal judges ruled Rwanda had not provided enough safeguards to prove it is a "safe third country".
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A British judge on Friday rejected an emergency bid to block deportation flights of asylum-seekers to Rwanda set to start next week under an agreement with the east African country, ruling politicians must manage immigration policy.
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Aid agencies say several asylum seekers in the UK have gone into hiding because of fears they will be sent to Rwanda.
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The government's plan to send some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda is "the opposite of the nature of God", the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. Under the £120m scheme - which was announced this week - people deemed to have entered…
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Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans.
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More than 78,000 people have signed a petition to help write off a Sheffield asylum seeker's £93,000 NHS debt for the care he needed to save his life. 32-year-old Simbarashe Mujakachi came to the UK with his family in 2004 from Zimbabwe.…
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A Belarusian Olympic athlete was sheltering in Poland's embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday after being offered safe passage to Warsaw, as the US slammed her team's attempt to send her home.
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Chad's new ruling junta on Sunday vowed to root out a rebel leader accused of "war crimes", seeking help from neighbouring Niger to track him down along with his fighters.
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Zimbabwean asylum seekers who were forced to attend meetings with officials from their home country have been threatened with removal, in a move believed to be part of an agreement to “repatriate” thousands of failed asylum seekers to the…
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