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Home Office urges High Court to ignore UN refugee agency's warnings on Rwanda deal
Police officers look on as demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protest against the Government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, while a High Court hearing over the policy is ongoing. Picture date: Monday September 5, 2022.
THE High Court is not required to accept the stark warnings made by the United Nations refugee agency over the safety of the Rwanda deal, government lawyers have claimed.
On the fourth day of the legal challenge against the plans, lawyers for the Home Office argued that the court was entitled to make its own assessment of the scheme.
UNHCR — the UN refugee agency — previously told the court that Rwanda could not be relied on to comply with the Refugee Convention.
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