A torture victim is expected to be deported to Rwanda tomorrow, despite the number of passengers being reduced due to successful appeals, a lawyer told the Court of Appeals today. Raza Hussain QC, representing two people at risk of leaving and three organizations challenging the policy, read a Home Office statement in court saying his client’s deportation should continue because “Rwanda has a functioning healthcare system. ». “As soon as I received the news that his removal was to be maintained … it seems that the possibility of torture has been considered, but the removal has not been postponed,” he added. The number of people on Tuesday flight has now dropped to eight, according to the Care4Calais campaign team. The plan of the Ministry of Interior faces two legal challenges today. The PCS union, which represents Border Force personnel, is appealing against Friday’s decision to fly tomorrow. The charity Asylum Aid is also making another effort to stop the flight. Judges at the Court of Appeal heard today that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was concerned about “shortcomings” in the Rwandan immigration process and warned the government not to proceed with the plan.
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A demonstration was planned outside the Ministry of Interior at 17:30
Protesters are expected to gather outside the Interior Ministry at 5pm today to call on the government to suspend their deportation flight to Rwanda. Ali Jones, organizer of the demonstration by SOAS Detainee Support, said: “Detention and deportation of migrants is always cruel and unjust, but the violent and permanent deportation of people to a country they have never been to – away from their families and their communities – it is clearly torturous. “ Zrinka Bralo, Managing Director of the Migrants Organization, said: “We have had enough. “The Rwandan fraud is the latest harsh extension of Britain’s hostile immigration system.” Holly Bancroft June 13, 2022 3:29 PM 1655129774
“Mistakes” in Home Office letters to asylum seekers ‘characterize’ UN role in Rwanda
Mistakes made by the Interior Ministry in letters to asylum seekers “characterized as wrong” the role of the UN refugee agency in Rwanda, lawyers told the Court of Appeal. Raza Husain QC told the court that the position of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had been “misunderstood” by the government. Regarding allegations that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees may oversee the Rwandan asylum process, Foreign Minister Priti Patel said: “The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is closely involved with the NEDP and will provide supervision of persons relocated from the United Kingdom “. However, Mr Husain said “well done with great respect, no they will not”. He told the court that this was now accepted as wrong and the Interior Ministry has issued an apology. The Interior Ministry said that “this is a misinterpretation [UN] report”. Mr Husain added that figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicated that they could not “monitor the quality of decision-making” of the Rwandan authorities. “In recent years, the UNHCR has not been allowed to monitor the Refugee Status Determination Committee and the Rwandan authorities have not systematically provided information on the asylum case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,” they said. Holly Bancroft13 June 2022 15:16 1655127944
The “hopeful” flight of the campaigns will be abolished – as the number of passengers is reduced to eight
Care4Calais says it is “very optimistic” that Rwanda’s flight will have to be canceled through a series of individual challenges. The campaign team told the Independent that only eight people were still on the flight list after more successful challenges. Activists hope to find a lawyer for the last person without legal representation this afternoon. Care4Calais founder Claire Mosely said: “We have to deal with each case individually. We hope that all of them will be removed from the list of flights by tomorrow “. He added: “We do not want the Home Office to be able to deport anyone to Rwanda until the full court case is over in July – how can people be deported before the policy is found to be illegal?” Adam Forrest13 June 2022 14:45 1655127583
Two more Rwandan flight passengers have had their tickets canceled
Two more people on the deportation flight to Rwanda have had their tickets canceled, according to the Care4Calais campaign team. They shared the news on Twitter, saying: “Their tickets have been canceled for two more deportees from Rwanda. Twenty-three people have now had their tickets canceled in Rwanda. “Eight still have live tickets for tomorrow.” Holly Bancroft June 13, 2022 2:39 PM 1655127383
The second challenge for the deportation of the Ministry of the Interior to Rwanda begins
A charity has launched another legal challenge to a government plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda. Asylum Aid has asked a Supreme Court justice to temporarily prevent ministers from forcing the expulsion of “any asylum seeker” in Rwanda. The charity’s lawyers argued that the process adopted by the government was unfair. Mr Justice Swift is considering the challenge at a High Court hearing in London. Lawyers representing Home Secretary Pretty Patel say Asylum Aid’s application must be rejected. Press Association13 June 2022 14:36 1655124582
Number of passengers on Rwanda flight ‘reduced to 10’
The number of people scheduled to be on the flight to Rwanda tomorrow dropped to 10, according to the Care4Calais campaign team. They posted the news on Twitter, saying: “Another deportee from Rwanda has had his ticket canceled. Twenty-one people have now had their tickets canceled in Rwanda, but ten still have live tickets for tomorrow. “ Holly Bancroft13 June 2022 13:49 1655123895
The torture victim remembers the “shock” when he discovered that he could be sent to Rwanda
A young Sudanese man spoke to the Care4Calais campaign about the shock he felt when he learned he was being sent to Rwanda. “They showed me the letter saying they would send me to Rwanda. “I felt it’s just an absolute shock,” he said. He had traveled to the UK from Calais and said he had been there “for 9 months trying to get on trucks”. “People were talking about Rwanda [in Calais]”,” He said, “but I never thought it would be true, and you know, since we do not have a TV there, and I was not really familiar with the Internet, we do not really have good news.” The 23-year-old talked about how he had to flee Sudan as a teenager, after he fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant in the anger of her family. As she came from a different tribe, which was considered superior to her own, her family was outraged by what had happened and “chased me to attack me,” she said. He moved from Sudan to Chad and then to Libya. “I was caught and held for three months by a militia, beaten and tortured with electricity and fire, from morning till night,” he said. “It left scars all over my body. They asked my family to send money, but I told them that my family did not have that kind of money. “On the contrary, they just made me work for them.” He finally managed to escape and cross by a boat to Malta. After nine months in Malta, he boarded a truck in Genoa, then to Marseille and then to Calais. Speaking about a possible mission to Rwanda, he said: “I feel shocked that after all the time I spent traveling, hoping to find a safe place, I could have a normal life, and thinking that I would find a safe place, that I would just he was sending me back again. “ Holly Bancroft13 June 2022 13:38 1655122330
Flight Challenges to Rwanda Are Just ‘Teething Problems,’ Johnson Says
Boris Johnson said his government’s policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda was facing “teething problems”. Mr Johnson was answering questions about a number of legal challenges to halting the Home Office deportation flight to Rwanda tomorrow. He said: “When we announced the policy, I always said it would start with a lot of problems and you have a lot of legal action against it. And they will try to delay it, that is inevitable. “ He added: “What we are trying to do is stop the business model of criminal gangs looting people, moving them to the English Channel on non-navigable ships, risking their lives and sometimes costing their lives. “But worse than that, what they are doing is undermining people’s confidence in legal immigration and their support for legal immigration.” (AP) Holly Bancroft13 June 2022 13:12 1655122154
The first dispute over the Rwandan Interior Ministry’s flight was heard in the Court of Appeal and the decision is expected at around 3:30 p.m. today. The second challenge, brought by the charity Asylum Aid, is going to be heard later this afternoon. Holly Bancroft June 13, 2022 1:09 PM 1655121761
The torture victim was still scheduled to be on a flight to Rwanda
Raza Husain QC, representing two people at risk of leaving and three organizations challenging the policy, told the court that one of the people he represented had just been informed by the Home Office that he was still scheduled to fly to Rwanda tomorrow. The man is being tortured, but the Interior Ministry has ruled that he should not be deported as “Rwanda has a functioning healthcare system.” This excerpt, from the announcement of the Ministry of Interior, was read by Mr. Husain in court. He said: “As for the appellant 5, I just received the news that his removal will be maintained. And there was a decision, once we made it, the torture seems to have been considered, but the removal was not postponed because Rwanda has a functioning healthcare system and does not raise any problems. “We say that such a person should not be placed in the position of my client.” Holly Bancroft June 13, 2022 1:02 PM
