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"A flight chartered to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda as part of a
new government policy was grounded following an intervention by the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The plan to deport asylum seekers for processing
in Rwanda is intended, the government says, to deter people from making the
dangerous journey across the Channel to the UK. This first flight had been
scheduled to take off on June 14 with just seven passengers on board. There had
been more due to fly but legal action enabled them to be removed.
This decision has already sparked a very negative reaction from the UK
government, which says that plans for future flights are already underway.
The ECHR issued specific interim measures ordering the UK authorities not to
remove one of the asylum seekers for three weeks after the final decision of
judicial proceedings that are ongoing in the UK. This in turn triggered
national legal mechanisms that prevented the other six from flying to Rwanda.
Although the measures indicated are temporary, the ECHR can choose to extend
them.
Home secretary Priti Patel pointed out in Parliament that the court did not
declare the Rwanda deportation plan to be unlawful. This is correct – the ECHR
has not made any such determination. At this point, it only stated that the
national and European courts should be given more time to decide this case
properly. However, if the UK were to deport the person concerned before the
ECHR measures expire or are lifted, it would then be violating international
law."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
