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Human rights activists outside Colnbrook detention centre near Heathrow protest against the Tory government's Rwanda deportation policy
THE next prime minister must abandon the “unlawful and reckless” policy of sending refugees to Rwanda, Amnesty International has said, amid warnings of the African nation’s “troubling” human rights record.
Ahead of the new Tory leader being revealed, the human rights organisation warned that Home Secretary Priti Patel “should never have led us to this point” where asylum-seekers face being deported on a one-way ticket to the African country.
Amnesty International UK refugee and migrant rights director Steve Valdez-Symonds said: “This shameful policy was always a profound error of judgement.
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
