UK Prime Minister: I will ignore international law about sending migrants to Rwanda

The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has continued to insist on the London government's plan to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda, insisting that he is ready to ignore international law that has temporarily prevented the implementation of the complex plan.

Jan 20, 2024 - 07:31
UK Prime Minister: I will ignore international law about sending migrants to Rwanda
UK Prime Minister: I will ignore international law about sending migrants to Rwanda

The Russia Today news agency wrote the news on Friday and quoted Sunak as saying: I have made it clear that I will not allow a foreign court to prevent us from implementing this plan. Sunak's statement came after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) passed decree number 39, which has temporarily suspended the plan to send immigrants and asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda. London has been insisting that it will enter into a new agreement with Kigali to revive its plan to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda, despite the judgment of the British Supreme Court saying that the plan is illegal. However, British MPs last December voted to support the complex plan of Rishi Sunak, to send immigrants in the country to Rwanda. Demonstration against the plan to send immigrants and asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda Sunak has been promoting the program claiming that the British people should decide who will enter the country and not criminal gangs or foreign courts. The Supreme Court of England said last year that the London government's plan to send refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda violates the law. It said that the plan puts the refugees in a dangerous situation, especially considering that some of them fled their country Rwanda and returning them there is putting them in danger. The plan of the British government has been strongly opposed by international human rights organizations, who say that Rwanda cannot be a safe country for these refugees and immigrants.