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Al Jazeera
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Federica Marsi

Sunak battles Supreme Court ruling: What next for the UK’s Rwanda plan?

An activist blocks a road near Heathrow Airport in London during a protest against plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda [File: Henry Nicholls/Reuters]

Hours after the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to the African country was unlawful, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to introduce emergency legislation that confirms that Rwanda is a safe country.

The emergency legislation “will provide a guarantee in law that those who are relocated from the UK to Rwanda will be protected against removal from Rwanda.”

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