UK signs new migration treaty with Rwanda to evade courts
Britain's Home Secretary James Cleverly (L) and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta exchange documents after signing a new treaty, in Kigali on December 5, 2023. Britain and Rwanda signed a new treaty on Tuesday in a bid to revive a controversial proposal by London to transfer migrants to the east African country.
British media reports said it would include commitments by Rwanda regarding the treatment of asylum-seekers and other migrants.
The first deportees were aboard a plane to fly there in June 2022 when a last-minute European Court of Human Rights injunction prevented any deportations.
Britain and Rwanda signed a new treaty on Tuesday in a bid to revive a controversial proposal by London to transfer migrants to the East African country.
The agreement was signed by Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta and British interior minister James Cleverly, who travelled to Kigali to salvage London's stalled bid to send migrants to Rwanda after the UK Supreme Court blocked an earlier arrangement as unlawful.
