Watch stay: Rwanda policy debate after MPs warn bill flouts human rights law

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Watch stay as members of the House of Lords debate Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda asylum bill on Monday, 12 February, after MPs and friends warned it’s “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations and would flout worldwide law.

The authorities’s Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill “risks untold damage” to the UK’s hard-won fame as a proponent of human rights internationally, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights mentioned.

Following a Supreme Court ruling towards the plan, the controversial draft laws and a treaty with Rwanda are supposed to forestall additional authorized challenges to the stalled deportation scheme.

The bill seeks to restrict asylum seekers’ potential to attraction towards being placed on a flight to the east African nation.

Under the proposed laws, judges can be compelled to treat Rwanda as secure and folks might subsequently be deported there.

However, the crossbench committee of MPs and Lords mentioned they have been “not persuaded that Parliament can be confident that Rwanda is now safe. In any event, we consider that the courts are best placed to resolve such contested issues of fact.”