{"id":1487992,"date":"2024-02-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/feb\/08\/council-of-europe-calls-on-uk-not-to-process-asylum-claims-in-rwanda"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:01:00","slug":"council-of-europe-calls-on-uk-not-to-process-asylum-claims-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/08\/council-of-europe-calls-on-uk-not-to-process-asylum-claims-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Council of Europe calls on UK not to process asylum claims in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People may be exposed to abuses such as torture and degrading treatment in Rwanda, says watchdog<\/p><p>Europe\u2019s leading anti-torture watchdog has called on the government to process asylum claims in the UK rather than sending people to Rwanda because of the risk they may be exposed to human rights abuses there.<\/p><p>In a report published on Thursday, the Council of Europe\u2019s committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment raises a litany of concerns after an 11-day visit to the UK in March and April last year.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/feb\/08\/council-of-europe-calls-on-uk-not-to-process-asylum-claims-in-rwanda\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/feb\/08\/council-of-europe-calls-on-uk-not-to-process-asylum-claims-in-rwanda\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People may be exposed to abuses such as torture and degrading treatment in Rwanda, says watchdogEurope\u2019s leading anti-torture watchdog has called on the government to process asylum claims in the UK rather than sending people to Rwanda because of the r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,2007,3056,6,3055,640,242,14,3254,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487992"}],"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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487993,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487992\/revisions\/1487993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}