UK government plan to deport migrants to Rwanda is unlawful, court rules

The British government's program to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, London's Court of Appeal ruled connected Thursday successful a judgement that gives a stroke to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to halt migrants from arriving connected tiny boats.

The 3 elder entreaty tribunal judges ruled, by a majority, that Rwanda could not beryllium treated arsenic a harmless 3rd country.

Judge Ian Burnett said the bulk recovered "the deficiencies successful the asylum strategy successful Rwanda are specified that determination are important grounds for believing that determination is simply a existent hazard that persons sent to Rwanda volition beryllium returned to their location countries wherever they look persecution and different inhumane treatment."