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Patel must abandon her shameful Rwanda policy, human rights groups demand
Campaigners vow to continue fighting Home Office's inhumane policy after first deportation flight is grounded
Priti Patel shouts out during the Platinum Jubilee concert, taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, London, Saturday June 4, 2022
PRITI PATEL must now abandon her shameful Rwanda policy entirely, human rights groups have demanded, after the first flight was grounded in an 11th-hour reprieve.
Campaigners vowed today to continue fighting the inhumane offshoring policy, declaring that they had “won the battle, but not the war” against the Home Secretary’s bid to send asylum-seekers on a one-way ticket to the east African nation.
The flight was grounded mere minutes before it was due to take off late on Tuesday after an intervention by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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