UK’s Rwanda asylum seeker policy is lawful, judges rule

Bloomberg

The UK government’s flagship immigration policy plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, London judges ruled.
The plan, which involves flying asylum seekers arriving in Britain some 4,000 miles (6,437.4 kilometres) to the African nation to be processed according to Rwandan laws, spurred several legal challenges from human rights
campaigners.
The government has consistently backed the plan announced in April and has accused lawyers representing asylum seekers of “abetting” criminal gangs.
“The court has concluded that, it is lawful for the government to make arrangements for relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda for their asylum claims to be determined in Rwanda rather than in the UK,” the judges said in a summary of the decision.
The plan is consistent with the refugee conventions and other obligations of the government under country’s human rights law.
However, the judges said the Home Office must “consider properly” each individual asylum claim to assess whether there are reasons to not relocate someone to Rwanda. They sent cases of eight asylum seekers back to the government for fresh consideration.