The first flight with asylum seekers to Rwanda, in the framework of the complaints of the organizations that defend Human Rights, has not finally taken off on the night of this Tuesday United Kingdom due to an order issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to prevent the deportation of migrants.
The Home Office has confirmed to the British BBC that the plane, a ‘Boeing 767-300’ located on a Ministry of Defense runway at Boscombe Down, in Amesbury, will not take off on Tuesday night.
Minutes before, the charity Care4Calais has said on its official Twitter profile, after a dance of figures and confusion due to the number of people inside the device, which was estimated at seven, that there was only one passenger on the flight.
According to various British media, an “out of hours” judge has examined the remaining half dozen cases following the European court’s order. Finally, the NGO ‘Stop Deportations’ has also indicated that no migrant will be deported.
Specifically, the European Court of Human Rights has issued an order to stop the deportation of an Iraqi asylum seeker who left his country in April 2022 and made a stopover in Turkey before traveling by boat, through the Canal de La Mancha, to Europe. Claiming to be in danger, he applied for asylum upon arrival in the UK on May 17.
“The European Court has indicated to the UK Government that the applicant should not be expelled to Rwanda up to three weeks after the delivery of the final internal decision in his ongoing judicial trial”, he indicated in a statement, an order that, finally, has been extended to the other applicants.
Among those who have criticized the controversial measure promoted by the Prime Minister’s Executive, Boris Johnson, is the Archbishop of Wales, Andrew John, who has strongly condemned the policy of Boris Johnson’s Executive, calling it immoral and ineffective, according to what he has collected the BBC network.
Likewise, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, have indicated that the policy “should shame” the United Kingdom. “The plan is presented as a humanitarian response to combat human trafficking and smuggling, but the result will aggravate the suffering of those who are already victims,” they said, according to the website of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
The agreement with Rwanda allows the British authorities to send asylum seekers who cross the English Channel to the African country. This initiative is endowed with 120 million pounds -144 million euros- and will focus mainly on men without family responsibilities who arrive in the United Kingdom by boat or truck.
Downing Street has argued that the current approach to migration costs the UK £1.5bn (€1.7bn) every year, with nearly £5m a day housing asylum seekers in hotels.