50 Migrants Detained for Rwanda Deportation Flights Freed on Bail: Lawyers

Fifty asylum seekers who were detained to be sent to Rwanda on deportation flights have been freed on bail, their lawyers said. Duncan Lewis Solicitors said many of the detainees are survivors of torture and trafficking. They were set to be on the deportation flights to Rwanda, which the government wants to see take off in July. “The Tribunal, in granting bail, rightly assessed them to not carry a risk of absconding, reaching the rational view that removal was not imminent,” the lawyers said. They also suggested that the freed asylum seekers were part of the “scores of people” detained in the end of April. It happened, despite “no decisions being made on whether their asylum claims were inadmissible and despite no decisions taken on whether it was safe for them to be removed to Rwanda,” the solicitors said....