An Iranian man who illegally entered the United Kingdom in recent weeks is to be sent to Rwanda next Tuesday on the first deportation flight to the central African country.
The Iranian was a policeman in the Islamic Republic. He had been asked to open fire at a demonstration, refused and was subsequently arrested. Eventually he fled Iran and made his way to England.
Yesterday a high court judge ruled that a controversial deportation flight to Rwanda that was due to take off early next week can go ahead.
Mr Justice Swift refused to grant interim relief – urgent action in response to an injunction application made by four asylum seekers facing offshoring to Rwanda.
Lawyers acting for the asylum seekers and the groups had argued the policy was unlawful and sought the urgent injunction to stop next week’s planned flight and any other such flights ahead of a full hearing of the case later in the year.
The decision will not stop individual refugees from further legal challenges to their removal to Rwanda, or a judicial review of the policy – which Justice Swift said could take six weeks.
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