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Home Office to ask ECHR to reconsider ruling that blocked it from exiling asylum seekers to Rwanda
A Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which was set to take asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda

THE Home Office will “imminently” ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to reconsider its ruling that blocked asylum-seekers from being deported to Rwanda. 

The first deportation flight to Rwanda was due to take off last week, but was blocked following an intervention by the ECHR. 

The ruling by the Strasbourg court, granting interim relief in the case of an Iraqi refugee, led to other deportees having their tickets cancelled in British courts.

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