Asylum Seeker from Supreme Court Case Says He Would Rather Die Than Fly to Rwanda – BBC News

Nov 17, 2023 | An asylum seeker who received a letter informing him he could be sent to Rwanda and was one of those to challenge the government at the Supreme Court has told BBC Newsnight he would rather die than go to the African nation.

The Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeal ruling on Wednesday that deemed the government’s policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda and ban them from returning to the UK was unlawful.

Rishi Sunak says the government will work on a new treaty with Rwanda and he is prepared to change UK laws.

The 49-year-old asylum seeker has asked for his identity to be hidden, and his words have been spoken by a translator.

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The mere thought of sending these people to Rwanda is absolutely abhorrent to me. Many of those people they want to send might well be gay; so how are these people going to be treated in Rwanda? As for Suella Braverman, thank God she's gone. (But how much trouble for Sunak is she going to make from the back benches?) As for Rishi Sunak himself, he's a schoolboy in a man's world, playing politics and playing to the fascist, right-wing fools that follow him and his ilk. The best of Tories have long gone. We are left with the dross. – © Mark Alexander

Rishi Sunak to Bring in Emergency Law after Court’s Rwanda Ruling

THE GUARDIAN: PM says legislation will ‘confirm’ Rwanda is safe country for asylum seekers – and says he is prepared to defy ECHR if necessary

Rishi Sunak said he accepted the supreme court decision but he did not agree with it and would find a way around it. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA
Rishi Sunak is introducing emergency legislation to “confirm” that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers deported from the UK, after the supreme court blocked his plan.

The prime minister said he would bring forward the new laws shortly and would be prepared to defy any judgment from the European court of human rights in Strasbourg if there were further attempts to stop Rwanda flights going ahead.

“I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights,” he said, arguing that the supreme court judgment had hardened his resolve for the Rwanda plan to proceed.

He added: “I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off. I will not take the easy way out.” » | Rowena Mason, Whitehall editor | Wednesday, November 15, 2023

This unelected prime minister is surely overstepping the mark in overriding this Supreme Court decision. Why have a Supreme Court at all if you aren't going to abide by the Court's decisions? Moreover, Sunak will be setting a very dangerous precedent by doing this. This prime minister is behaving like a schoolboy in a man's world! – © Mark Alexander

Rwanda Migrant Policy Ruled Unlawful by Supreme Court

THE TELEGRAPH: Judges said there is a ‘real risk’ asylum seekers returned to their own country could face ‘ill treatment’ in breach of their human rights

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan was grounded on Wednesday as the UK’s Supreme Court ruled it was unlawful.

The court’s five judges unanimously backed a judgement by the Court of Appeal that the policy was unlawful because of the “real risk” that asylum seekers sent to Rwanda would be returned to their own country where they could face “ill treatment” in breach of their human rights.

Delivering the verdict, Lord Reed, the court’s president, said the justices were “unanimously” of the view that the Court of Appeal was “entitled” to reach that view. “Indeed, having been taken through the evidence ourselves, we agree with their conclusion,” he said.

It represents a major blow for the Prime Minister who has made the Rwanda scheme central to his pledge to “stop the boats” by deterring migrants from making further crossings. » | Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor | Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Supreme Court has reached a sensible and correct decision. Sending unwanted immigrants to Rwanda was a half-baked idea from the very start. It was also extremely expensive. Furthermore, implementing it would have solved virtually nothing. – © Mark Alexander

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