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UK’s Rwanda plan ‘fundamentally incompatible’ with rights obligations

People protest outside the UK Home Office in central London on June 13, 2022, against the government's intention to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda [File: Niklas Hallen/AFP]

The plan of the United Kingdom’s government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda goes against the country’s human rights obligations and may breach international law, according to a parliamentary report.

Lawmakers from parliament’s cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a damning 52-page report released on Monday that the government’s legislation to revive its deportation plan is “not compatible with the UK’s international obligations”.

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