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Campaigners launch legal challenge against Home Secretary's plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda
Young children among a group of people brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel is facing a legal challenge against her plans to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda.
Lawyers for the Freedom from Torture charity have sent a pre-action letter to the Home Office expressing “serious concerns about the lawfulness of the policy,” it emerged today.
The letter, which is expected to lead to a judicial review, requests disclosure of information relating to the plans including documents outlining the policy, risk assessments and the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the British and Rwandan governments.
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