The UK Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that an asylum agreement with Rwanda was illegal, noting the likelihood that refugees transported to Kigali may be repatriated to the countries from which they fled, subjecting them to even more harsh treatment.
The five members of the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the Court of Appeal was correct in concluding in June that there had not been a thorough evaluation of Rwanda’s safety.
A UK High Court of Appeal declared that Rwanda is not a safe third country for asylum seekers because of flaws in its asylum procedures, overturning a previous ruling that had declared it to be safe.
Both Rwanda and the UK, who have been actively pushing the agreement to UN agencies and other nations as a creative fix for a “broken” international refugee protection mechanism, have suffered greatly from the most recent judgment.
Source: Business Insider
