UK unveils plans to override rights court's ruling preventing asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda | News24

The UK has introduced legislation to this end.The UK government Wednesday introduced legislation allowing it to override rulings by the European Court of Human Rights , after a judge in Strasbourg blocked flights removing asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed anew to implement the Rwanda plan, aimed at deterring immigrants from making illegal crossings of the Channel.British courts earlier this month gave the go-ahead for the first removal flight to leave, but the ECHR stepped in at the last minute with an interim ruling to block its departure.In the meantime, Raab told parliament the Bill of Rights would"strengthen our proud tradition of freedom" dating back to Magna Carta in 1215.

"I'm proud of our world-beating judiciary, and what else is the point of a Supreme Court if it bows in subordination to a European one?"The rights pact is integral to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland after three decades of violence over British rule. Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK's chief executive, said the bill would be"a giant leap backwards for the rights of ordinary people".The government in London promised to tighten the country's borders after Brexit, and"take back control" of immigration.

The new Bill of Rights would supersede Britain's 1998 Human Rights Act, which was enacted by the then Labour government of Tony Blair as part of the peace process for Northern Ireland.

Weirdly they don't cry Xenophobia.. Unless that word is only reserved for South Africans?

Good for them

This is good. We need similar laws here.

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