European court order could stop UK migrant flight to Rwanda

Protestors demonstrate against the British Government plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, in London, Britain, June 13, 2022. [Reuters]

Britain's first flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda could be blocked at the eleventh hour after the European Court of Human Rights issued an injunction to stop the deportation of one of the migrants, a charity and a government official said.

The plan of Britain's Conservative government to send some migrants, who had arrived illegally by crossing the English Channel in small boats from Europe, to the East African country has horrified liberal and left-wing opponents, charities and religious leaders who say it is inhumane.