Home Secretary James Cleverly and Rwanda’s foreign minister Vincent Biruta after signing a new deportation treaty in Kigali in December Individual asylum seekers due to be sent to Rwanda could also launch their own legal challenges against their removal as early as next week, reports suggest.
On Friday, Asylum Aid said it is concerned the Home Office’s Safety of Rwanda policy – which it believes is at odds with the law – could mean some people seeking asylum are unlawfully denied from entering the UK processing system. The charity claims that the Home Office’s policy requires caseworkers to conclude that Rwanda is safe, even if they are given compelling evidence that the country is not safe for the person in question based on their individual circumstances.
The charity said this is “at odds with the Rwanda act, section 4, which allows a person seeking asylum to challenge their removal to Rwanda on the basis of compelling evidence relating specifically to the person’s particular individual circumstances that Rwanda is not safe for them”.