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Rwanda protests: Nine people arrested blocking road near Heathrow in anti-migrant flights demo

Activists from Stop Deportations lay in the road at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre on the A4 on Tuesday night and unfurled banners condemning the Government’s controversial policy

Evening Standard

‘Tell my family I love them’: Asylum seeker’s emotional call with sister just before Rwanda flight cancelled

Exclusive: Iranian Kurd on flight said ‘tell my family I love them, I’m sorry for everything’

The Independent UK

Rwanda – live: UK may pull out of European human-rights deal, says No 10

Home secretary insists she will press ahead with implementing policy

The Independent UK

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‘Tens of thousands’ to a cancelled flight: how No 10’s Rwanda plan began to fall apart

A timeline of Home Office’s plans to send asylum seekers to Kigali – and what may happen next

The Guardian - UK

Minister warns Home Office already preparing next Rwanda flight - but refuses to give timetable

Despite last minute legal reprieve granted to asylum seekers, Therese Coffey ‘highly confident’ next flight will go ahead

The Independent UK

Priti Patel says preparation for next Rwanda flight 'begins now' after first plane cancelled

The initial flight was cancelled at the last minute after a late intervention from the European Court of Human Rights

Manchester Evening News

It took a human rights court to halt No 10’s Rwanda flight – and act with basic humanity

The home secretary says she is disappointed at the failure of the deportations, but she must rethink this terrible policy, says Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council

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UK forced to cancel deportation flight to Rwanda after European court ruling

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.

Radio France Internationale

What is Rwanda’s record on human rights?

Plans to send asylum seekers to the central African nation, which could be about to get underway, have been bitterly attacked as ‘unlawful’ and contested at the High Court

The Independent UK

Key questions as European Court of Human Rights grounds first Rwanda flight

The plane was scheduled to depart the UK on Tuesday night.

The Independent UK

Britain to fight legal challenges against Rwandan immigration plan

Britain will fight any legal challenges against its policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda and is confident that flights will be able to take off in future, a senior British minister said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Politics: Priti Patel says UK Government ‘won’t be deterred’ by Rwanda flights legal challenges

Home Secretary addressed Parliament after first migrant flight was cancelled following intervention by European court

Evening Standard

Wednesday briefing: How the first Rwanda asylum flight was cancelled

In today’s newsletter: Boris Johnson said ‘tens of thousands’ would be sent to Rwanda. Last night the number on the first flight was reduced to zero

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel undeterred despite late grounding of Rwanda deportation flight

The Home Secretary described the European Court of Human Rights intervention as ‘very surprising’.

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The Independent UK

What the papers say – June 15

The last-minute grounding of the first deportation flight to Rwanda dominates Wednesday’s front pages.

The Independent UK

Rwanda migrants — live: Home Office preparation for next flight ‘begins now’

Rwanda flight did not take-off after a last minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights

Daily Mirror

Priti Patel 'surprised' as Rwanda flight halted and says many will go on next flight

The European Court of Human Rights launched a last-gasp intervention in regards to an Iraqi national, who had a judicial review, which forced the plane to remain grounded

Daily Record

First migrant flight to Rwanda stopped by European Court of Human Rights injunctions

Home Secretary Priti Patel described the European Court of Human Rights intervention as "very surprising".

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The Independent UK

Rwanda flight grounded after European Court of Human Rights intervenes

All migrants have been removed from the plane, Government sources have said.

The National (Scotland)

Home Office's Rwanda flight GROUNDED – as FM Nicola Sturgeon issues warning

THE Home Office has cancelled the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda – after last-minute legal challenges and a key European ruling…

Evening Standard

Rwanda flights chaos: Priti Patel says ECHR has not imposed an ‘absolute bar’ on deportations to East Africa

The Home Secretary has told MPs the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg had not ruled that the policy was illegal

The Independent UK

Rwanda deportation flight called off at last minute after European judges intervene

The flight that was scheduled to deport the first refugees to Rwanda will not take off following a series of eleventh-hour interventions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Nottingham Post

First migrant flight to Rwanda postponed as European Court of Human Rights steps in

Earlier, Boris Johnson suggested lawyers representing migrants were “abetting the work of criminal gangs”

Daily Mirror

'Deporting migrants is immoral - Rwanda policy incites hate and is wrong'

Dumping people 4,000 miles away is 'immoral' (Church of England bishops), 'appalling' (Prince Charles) and 'ugly' (Tory MP and former minister Jesse Norman) when legal routes for refugees are largely shut

Daily Mirror

Controversial Rwanda flight CANCELLED minutes before take off after legal challenges

The flight was set to cost hundreds of thousands and have only a few asylum seekers on board as Boris Johnson’s official spokesman said “at this point I can’t be definitive” when asked if the highly controversial plane would still take off

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