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Priti Patel to stand trial challenge against Deportation Agreement from Rwanda

Priti Patel already facing legal action against her plans send asylum seekers to Rwanda in what will probably be first of many challenges against contradictory policy.

Lawyers representing the asylum seeker who has the right to for removal under plans filed a lawsuit review statement, claiming that sending him to that East African country would violate his human rights.

They claim that the British deal government mediated with Rwanda – where asylum seekers will go who arrived in UK sent them 4,000 miles to have their claims reviewed by Rwandan authorities – breaks the law in several ways.

Lawyers say it in violation of like European convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – on on the grounds that he denies the deportees proper access to the courts and is discriminatory – and the Geneva Convention, which provides that asylum-seekers should not be fined for their method of arrival.

Lawyers also claim that policy breaks the law on on the basis that Rwanda cannot be considered a “safe country” like the UK government claims.

Case Attorney Harjot Singh of Twinwood Law Practice, told Independent: We firmly believe that [policy] is illegal. I have all my faith in judicial system. I’ll leave that to the judges.”

Zoe Bentleman, lawyer director at the Association of Immigration Law Practitioners, said there were likely to be further legal challenges.

” government not above the law, which lawyers are professionally and ethically bound to uphold regardless of their politics,” she said.

“Further litigation, challenge Any failure UK to comply with their obligations under the law is likely and will be necessary to maintain rule of law.”

She is added: “We are deep concerned what if it policy should have been found by our illegal courts, government would see our legal and constitutional framework as an obstacle to his agenda and change the law to weaken protection of rights”.

multimillion dollar deal announced last week, it set see asylum seekers who considered “unacceptable” meaning they traveled through a safe country to reach the UK and therefore their claim will not be resolved. in United Kingdom – deported to Rwanda for consideration of their applications there.

inadmissibility UK rulesintroduced in January 2021 provide that persons found ineligible may be removed to the safe country through which they traveled, if that country consented to their return, or otherwise to “any safe third country that would accept them”.

Considering that in the UK failed terminate any bilateral return agreements with European Union countries so he can send asylum seekers back continent, the ministers hope that new a migration agreement would mean that they could instead take them to Rwanda.

Agreement requires Rwanda to process claims in conformity with the UN Refugee Convention, which provides protection from inhuman and degrading treatment.

However, lawyers argue that there is no “mechanism in place to ensure that it’s done”, adding that Rwanda has a “bad human rights situation”. record” and that asylum seekers in country “do not treat in conformity with [the] acceptable level of their handling by international law”.

They refer to an Amnesty International report published in 2019 describing the incident in February 2018 in at least 11 Congolese refugees were killed when the police opened fire on protesters in the city of Karongi and in Kiziba refugee camp, both in western Rwanda.

The report states that one year ona not to investigate unnecessary and/or excessive use of force police, the Rwandan authorities arrested and prosecuted refugees for their participation in protests.

Lawyers also quote US governments latest Human trafficking in Face Report for 2021 blamed on Rwandan authorities of detention of thousands of potential victims in district transit centers “without adequate screening or referral of identified victims to appropriate care and assistance”.

Report adds Rwandan government investigated fewer cases of trafficking in persons and prosecuted and convicted fewer traffickers compared to the previous year and that it was “lacking a victim-witness” support program”.

A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said: “Rwanda is a safe and secure country. with track record of supporting over 130,000 refugees, including through the UN Refugee Agency who themselves said that the country has a safe and protective environment for refugees.

“This agreement is in line with domestic and international legal obligations and we will defend any legal challenge firmly.”

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