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UK’s bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is ‘lawful’: High Court

Stand Up To Racism campaigners hold banners outside the High Court in London [Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP]

The UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal, two High Court judges have ruled in a victory for backers of the controversial policy.

But the judges also said on Monday that the government failed to consider the individual circumstances of the people it tried to deport, signalling further legal battles ahead.

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