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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Experts cast doubt on Braverman’s hopes of ECHR rule change on Rwanda

Suella Braverman, the home secretary, during the visit to Rwanda.
Suella Braverman was reported as saying the ECHR rule 39 was flawed. Photograph: Reuters

Legal experts have cast doubt on the UK’s claims of “possible reforms” to European court of human rights procedures that stopped an asylum seeker from being deported to Rwanda last year.

During a two-day visit to the country’s capital, Kigali, Suella Braverman told a selected group of government-friendly papers that she was “encouraged” by the government’s “constructive” talks with Strasbourg to overhaul court injunctions. An ECHR injunction last June prevented an Iraqi national from being deported from the UK to the east African country.

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