UK-Rwanda asylum law:UN Human Rights office urges governments to enhance safe pathways for asylum seekers

Shafaqna English— Shafaqna English-The UN Human Rights office on Wednesday called on governments to enhance “safe and regular” pathways for asylum seekers, according to Anadolu Agency. “We are deeply concerned that various other countries are considering ways of externalising their asylum and other human rights obligations and we have repeatedly stated that

The Guardian—Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation. Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections The Home Office will launch a major operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK on Monday, weeks earlier than expected, in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda, the Guardian can reveal.Officials plan to hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration service offices or bail appointments and will also pick people up nationwide in a surprise two-week...

BBC News—Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK. Taoiseach asks justice minister to bring forward legislation so asylum seekers can be returned to the UK.

The Guardian—Detained asylum seekers given Home Office booklet saying Rwanda is ‘generally safe’. Glossy promotional leaflet handed out to asylum seekers detained under Rishi Sunak’s deportation policyAsylum seekers who have been detained under Rishi Sunak’s deportation policy are being handed a colourful promotional document entitled: “I’m being relocated to Rwanda. What does it mean to me?”The news came as the government faced a second legal challenge over the prime minister’s £500m policy and it emerged that dozens of asylum seekers were being forcibly taken to detention centres. Continue...