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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

UK condemned Rwanda for human rights abuses months before signing deal to send asylum seekers there

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Britain condemned Rwanda for failing to investigate human rights violations just months before Boris Johnson agreed to deport thousands of asylum seekers there.

A new multi-million-pound deal will see people seeking sanctuary in the UK flown 4,000 miles away to have their asylum claims processed by the east African country, in what the home secretary branded a “world-leading migration partnership”.

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