{"id":1337299,"date":"2023-11-17T14:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/no-10-rules-out-overriding-international-law-for-rwanda-asylum-flights"},"modified":"2023-11-17T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:26:05","slug":"no-10-rules-out-overriding-international-law-for-rwanda-asylum-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/17\/no-10-rules-out-overriding-international-law-for-rwanda-asylum-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"No 10 rules out overriding international law for Rwanda asylum flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street says ignoring ECHR and parts of UN refugee convention could delay emergency bill<\/p><p>Downing Street has ruled out a proposal by rightwing Conservatives to override international law to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda, prompting threats that rebel MPs will simply seek to amend planned legislation.<\/p><p>Rishi Sunak has promised to introduce a bill to parliament to get around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/15\/supreme-court-rejects-rishi-sunak-plan-to-deport-asylum-seekers-to-rwanda\">Wednesday\u2019s supreme court ruling <\/a>that flights to Rwanda could not take place because of the risk that people could be wrongly returned to their home countries.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/no-10-rules-out-overriding-international-law-for-rwanda-asylum-flights\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/no-10-rules-out-overriding-international-law-for-rwanda-asylum-flights\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street says ignoring ECHR and parts of UN refugee convention could delay emergency billDowning Street has ruled out a proposal by rightwing Conservatives to override international law to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda, prompting threats that r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71469,3056,6,3055,242,14,238,6964,3254,44425,1314,10478],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337299"}],"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\/30504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337877,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337299\/revisions\/1337877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}