Home Office misled refugees about UN involvement in Rwanda plans, court told

Protesters stand outside the Royal Court of Justice in London as the high court hears a legal challenge to stop the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

The United Nations refugee agency has made a dramatic intervention to try to halt Priti Patel’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.

In a late submission of evidence, the UNHCR claimed the home secretary misled refugees over the organisation’s support for the plan. The agency has also said the scheme failed to meet the required standards of “legality and appropriateness” for transferring asylum seekers from one country to another.