Stop Removal of Asylum seekers to Rwanda! Stop Treating them as Commodities!

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Priti Patel has signed an agreement on migration with Rwanda. This is to transport UK Asylum seekers to Rwanda, in Central Africa. The Rwandan government will decide under their law whether the migrants get to stay or leave. Whoever gets asylum will only be able to stay for 5 years in Rwanda.

The UK has every right to deport illegal immigrants but sending asylum seekers to one of the world's poorest countries with the worst records on human rights violations is simply cruel. UK's opposition and the human rights groups have strongly condemned the scheme and called it an 'inhumane, disgraceful, cruel, and repellent act'. This has been slammed as an 'egregious breach of international law' and 'really unacceptable' by the UN Refugee Agency. The UK must immediately withdraw this scheme.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: Stop the government's 'one way ticket' plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Timeline

17 Apr 2022	Petition opened for signatures
19 Apr 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 19 Apr 2022

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