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Rwanda policy: Asylum-seekers not being punished, Home Office tells court
Protesters outside the High Court in London demonstrate against the government's Rwanda deportation policy in June 2022
THE Home Office defended its plans to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda in the High Court today, despite warnings that the African nation is not a safe third country.
Giving evidence in the first High Court challenge to the deal, lawyers for the government department disputed arguments that the policy amounted to “unlawful penalisation” of asylum-seekers.
One told the court that the removal of asylum-seekers to Rwanda and refusal to assess their claims was not being imposed as a punishment.
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