{"id":1335244,"date":"2023-11-16T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/16\/uk-ministers-efforts-to-revive-rwanda-policy-likely-to-fail-lawyers-say"},"modified":"2023-11-16T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:51:05","slug":"uk-ministers-efforts-to-revive-rwanda-policy-likely-to-fail-lawyers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/16\/uk-ministers-efforts-to-revive-rwanda-policy-likely-to-fail-lawyers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ministers\u2019 efforts to revive Rwanda policy likely to fail, lawyers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of \u2018magical thinking\u2019 and ignoring facts on the ground that led to supreme court judgment<\/p><p>Lawyers have said that UK ministers\u2019 latest plans to get their high-profile Rwanda policy off the ground are unlikely to overcome the legal obstacles that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/15\/supreme-court-rejects-rishi-sunak-plan-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda\">defeated them in the supreme court<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p><p>After the five judges unanimously rejected the government\u2019s plans to deport people seeking asylum in the UK to the east African country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/15\/rishi-sunak-to-bring-in-emergency-law-after-courts-rwanda-ruling#:~:text=During%20a%20combative%20press%20conference,east%20African%20country%20is%20safe.\">Rishi Sunak said<\/a> that he would ensure the flights could go ahead by legislating that Rwanda was safe.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/16\/uk-ministers-efforts-to-revive-rwanda-policy-likely-to-fail-lawyers-say\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/16\/uk-ministers-efforts-to-revive-rwanda-policy-likely-to-fail-lawyers-say\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government accused of \u2018magical thinking\u2019 and ignoring facts on the ground that led to supreme court judgmentLawyers have said that UK ministers\u2019 latest plans to get their high-profile Rwanda policy off the ground are unlikely to overcome the legal obst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,2816,6,3055,640,14,3254,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335245,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335244\/revisions\/1335245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}