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Home Office would send just three staff to ‘monitor’ rights of 25,000 in Rwanda

Exclusive: The department currently has only one person in Rwanda, despite stressing ‘monitoring obligations’ in court

By Camille Corcoran
Home Office would send just three staff to ‘monitor’ rights of 25,000 in Rwanda
The Home Office said its staff would work alongside an independent committee of eight experts.
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The Home Office would send a maximum of three staff to Rwanda to monitor the rights of up to 25,000 deported asylum seekers, openDemocracy can reveal.

Currently, only one Home Office employee is based in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, where staff are stationed on short six-month deployments.

Responding to a Freedom of Information request, the government department said there was a “possibility of an additional two roles” in Kigali if the Rwanda scheme, currently held up in the courts, is allowed to go ahead.

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