The Latest Breaking News from Rwanda

The heir to the throne reportedly branded the controversial policy to deport asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda "appalling", in a further blow to their relationship

A last minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights blocked the British government from sending a plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda. Amid the contraversial migrant deal signed between London and Kigali, a recent report published by the Washington-based think-tank Freedom House, has called out Rwanda as…

Downing Street said all options were on the table, including pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Conservative member of Cardiff Council, Joel Williams, has broken ranks with his party and opposed the UK Government’s plan to send some migrants to Rwanda while their applications to remain in the UK are processed. He explains why he believes this policy is inhumane and wrong

Scots MP Alistair Carmichael challenged Patel over her claim that asylum seekers were not in genuine danger.

As far as Johnson and Priti Patel are concerned, the terrified migrants are just hapless extras, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Hundreds of people who arrived at British shores appeared to be unaware that there was a possibility they could be put on a flight to the African nation

European Court of Human Rights makes eleventh-hour intervention leaving hated immigration policy stalled on the tarmac as defiant government promises new legal challenge

Of the seven asylum seekers removed from a plane set to depart to Rwanda last night, five are trafficking and torture victims while one had "quite severe PTSD" says the founder of Care4Calais

All European states except Russia and Belarus are signatories to the convention drawn up after the Second World War

Home Secretary Priti Patel defended the policy after the first flight was effectively blocked by the European Court of Human Rights.