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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

New asylum seekers still being locked up for removal to Rwanda despite questions over legality of policy

PA Wire

New asylum seekers are being locked up in order to be deported to Rwanda even after court challenges raised questions about whether the controversial removal flights would ever be able to begin.

Campaigners accused ministers of being “untethered from any sense of morality or legality” after it emerged that people seeking refuge in Britain have been placed in detention centres following the grounding of last week’s planned flight.

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