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Court action launched to block Tories' 'unlawful' Rwanda deportation plans

CAMPAIGNERS have formally launched their court bid to stop the Government’s controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

The National (Scotland)

Home Office braced for Rwanda deportation flight delays as plans face legal action

Officials who have a concern or issue with the Rwanda scheme should consider the trauma colleagues endure as they scoop babies out of Channel waters, after making unsuccessful crossings, an insider told the Mirror.

Daily Mirror

My 98-year-old friend fled Nuremberg on the Kindertransport. Today would he be sent to Rwanda?

More than 80 years later, Henry still remembers how difficult it was to be a child refugee. Here’s what he thinks of the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers – some of whom could be unaccompanied minors – 4,500 miles away, writes Chitra Ramaswamy

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‘I’ll take my life’: UK refugees being deported to Rwanda despair

People at detention centres scheduled for deportation talk to Al Jazeera ahead of the first flight on June 14.

Al Jazeera

Suicidal asylum seeker facing deportation to Rwanda told to get haircut or learn instrument

Man in his 40s is the victim of torture and suffers from PTSD, but officials at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre have been accused of dismissing his ‘deteriorating’ mental health

The Independent UK

Home Office’s Rwanda deportation plans face high court challenge

About 30 asylum seekers expected to be sent to Rwanda on 14 June

The Guardian - UK

UK charities seek injunction to block migrant deportations to Rwanda

Human rights groups said their lawyers had submitted papers on Wednesday at the High Court in London to get an injunction to halt next week's planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda, a scheme which has drawn wide criticism.

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Campaigners and migrants launch legal bid to stop Priti Patel’s Rwanda asylum flight

It comes as the number of migrants to have crossed the Channel to the UK so far this year passed the 10,000 mark

The Independent UK

People at risk of suicide facing deportation to Rwanda told to try sudoku

Instead of being offered counselling, those assessed to be at risk of self-harm or suicide have been given ‘how to feel better’ handouts

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel accused of trying to deport former Iranian police officer to Rwanda

Man reportedly fled to the UK after being sentenced to five years’ jail for refusing to fire at Iranian protesters

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on deportations to Rwanda: cut out the stunts

Editorial: The government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unjust and unworkable. Ministers should give it up

The Guardian - UK

Home Office offers asylum seekers choice between war zones they fled and Rwanda

High number of first 100 people to be sent to Rwanda are from Sudan, despite being small number of those crossing the Channel

The Guardian - UK

I came here to save my life. By sending me to Rwanda, the UK threatens it again

We’re to be offshored next week – I can’t tell you how desperate it makes me. We can’t believe a great country treats us this way, says the Secret asylum seeker

The Guardian - UK

Home Office accused of trying to deport unaccompanied minors to Rwanda

THE Home Office has been accused of attempting to deport unaccompanied minors to Rwanda.

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The Independent UK

Home Office accused of attempting to deport unaccompanied minors to Rwanda

UK charities say there is a ‘worrying pattern’ of children being categorised as adults by the Government’s flawed age-assessment system.

The Guardian - UK

UK accused of attempting to deport children to Rwanda

Charities claim asylum seekers under 18 being classed as adults under Home Office age assessments

Daily Mirror

Refugee brothers, 16 and 27, who fled Syrian war split as one sent to Rwanda

The distraught Syrian said he'd rather kill himself than abandon his teen brother. The pair fled the war-torn country after being tortured by the regime

Radio France Internationale

Anti-Rwanda protesters in DRC denounce alleged support for M23 rebels

Hundreds of people took to the streets in two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week to protest neighbouring Rwanda's alleged meddling in the country's affairs.

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The Guardian - UK

Afghans with western links among rising number trying to cross Channel

Fivefold increase in refugees from Afghanistan crossing in small boats this year as they flee Taliban

The Independent UK

Asylum seekers threatened with Rwanda deportation under Priti Patel scheme ‘go on hunger strike’

It’s the latest in a series of concerns raised about the wellbeing of asylum seekers, just weeks before the first flights are due to leave

The Guardian - UK

Home Office threatens hunger strikers with faster deportation to Rwanda

Letter seen as potential warning to 17 asylum seekers who began protest after being given offshoring date

Al Jazeera

132 asylum seekers in Rwanda after evacuation from Libya: UNCHR

The asylum seekers are from several African countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.

The Guardian - UK

Clear majority of people crossing Channel are refugees, says UNHCR

UN agency says most arriving in UK by small boat should not be called migrants, in challenge to Priti Patel

Al Jazeera

Analysis: Why are Rwanda and DRC having another diplomatic spat?

The current diplomatic spat seems to have been triggered by fighting between M23 and state forces in eastern DRC.

Daily Mirror

4 bits of bad news sneaked out by Boris Johnson before Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

The Jubilee festivities offer a reprieve to Boris Johnson, who has been trying to win over wavering MPs as he faces the threat of a no confidence vote in his leadership

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