Asylum

Judges in London on Monday ruled that the UK government's controversial plan to deport migrants to Rwanda was lawful, after a legal challenge by migrants and campaigners. Former prime minister Boris Johnson brought in the proposal to try to…
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The ECHR is Europe's top human rights court and serves as a court of last instance in cases where all domestic avenues are exhausted.
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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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The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation "in the next few weeks", officials in Kigali said Thursday.
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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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Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Kigali was not "trading in human beings" when it agreed to a controversial deal allowing Britain to send migrants and asylum seekers to his country.
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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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