Law allowing asylum seekers to be detained and sent to Rwanda disapplied by Northern Ireland court

A judge has ruled that provisions of the UK's Illegal Migration Act - which created powers to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - should be disapplied in Northern Ireland. The High Court in Belfast on Monday morning ordered the 'disapplication' of sections of the act as they undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post-Brexit arrangements.

Each of the statutory provisions under consideration infringes the protection afforded to RSE in the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.' The judge ruled that the sections of the Act that were the subject of the legal challenges should be 'disapplied' in Northern Ireland. He also declared aspects of the Act incompatible with the ECHR.

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