Protests Erupt After UK Court Greenlights Plan to Deport Asylum-Seekers to Rwanda

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'What has happened to our humanity?' asked jeremycorbyn.

last week that the Tories' new deportation policy is in the"public interest" and denied plaintiffs' request for an injunction ahead of a full judicial review later this summer.

A three-judge panel from the British Court of Appeal on Monday rejected a last-ditch legal challenge from a trade union and two refugee groups—Detention Action and Care4Calais—upholding Swift's decision and refusing to grant permission for an appeal to the British Supreme Court. Later on Monday, Swift dismissed a separate injunction request brought by Asylum Aid. Barring any new developments, several asylum-seekers are scheduled to be put on a plane to Rwanda on Tuesday night in the first removal flight since the program, officially called the U.K.-Rwanda Asylum Partnership Arrangement, was announced.in response."If you possibly can, get down to the Home Office now! We can still win this fight. Show them how many of us there are.

"There are 70 million people in this world who are refugees," said Corbyn."Seventy million people without a home to call their own. Seventy million people facing an uncertain future. They are human beings, just like you and me in this street here today. In a different place in a different time, any one of us could be one of those 70 million."

"Human rights requires, and the law requires, that you treat refugees fairly, safely, and you give them support," the leftist leader continued."It is a shame, a shame on this country that people who have fled from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Yemen, and so many other places are sleeping rough and starving on the streets of our cities.

 

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