UK’s Rwanda bill ‘incompatible with human rights obligations’

Demonstrators protest agains the government’s Rwanda deportation scheme outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in September 2022. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

The UK government’s controversial Rwanda legislation that deems the African country as a safe place to deport people to is fundamentally incompatible with Britain’s human rights obligations and places it in breach of international law, according to a damning parliamentary report.

MPs and peers from the cross-party joint committee on human rights have delivered a critical analysis of the safety of Rwanda bill, which is progressing at speed through parliament.