The Home Office has admitted that LGBT+ refugees who are deported to Rwanda could be persecuted on the basis of their sexual orientation – but it plans to send them there anyway.
The department’s equality impact assessment for the policy, published on Monday night, states that there are “concerns” over the treatment of some LGBTQ+ people in the east African country, and that investigations point to “ill treatment” of this group being “more than a one-off”.
