They also denied the UK breached parts of the deal.<\/p>\n
“Rwanda is not entitled to any of the forms of relief it seeks,” they told the Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, Rwanda’s minister of justice and attorney general, previously told the court the country had incurred “significant costs” preparing for the partnership, but the UK “then sought to walk away from its legal obligations”.<\/p>\n
He also said the UK “did not do Rwanda a courtesy of informing it in advance” that it was scrapping the deal, and leaders were “left to read about this development in the media”.<\/p>\n
Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak introduced the scheme as a deterrent to those looking to illegally cross the English Channel in small boats.<\/p>\n
The plan had first been announced in 2022 by then-prime minister Boris Johnson. It was designed so that asylum seekers arriving in the UK “illegally” from a safe country, such as France, would be sent to Rwanda and have their claims processed there.<\/p>\n
If successful, they could be granted refugee status and allowed to stay in Rwanda.<\/p>\n
The first flight that had been scheduled to take off under the plan in 2022 was grounded minutes before take-off due to an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which triggered a series of legal challenges in London courts.<\/p>\n
The scheme faced a number of legal battles before it was ultimately scrapped.<\/p>\n
A voluntary removals programme was subsequently announced in 2024, under which migrants whose claims were rejected were offered up to \u00a33,000 to move to the east African country.<\/p>\n
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