Council of Europe's anti-torture committee: Illegal Migration Bill 2023 and the Agreement with Rwanda both raise multiple concerns over treatment of vulnerable persons and removal of foreign nationals to a country where they may be exposed to treatment contrary to ECHR Article 3. Report on UK immigration detention: One Chinese national, 67 years old, diagnosed with non-organic psychosis and assessed as an
Adult at risk, had been held in Pentonville Prison for 20 months. He spent 23 hours a day confined to his small cell, only leaving the cell to wash.

Those claiming the "legacy asylum" backlog has been cleared by some kind of amnesty are clearly wrong. Not that facts matter to those kinds of people.

But, if anything, approval rates are lower. Asylum claims are being refused, not approved, without being considered properly. Tens of thousands of asylum claims decided in weeks by the chaotic Home Office clearly cannot have been considered properly.

Being fair has never been a Home Office aim, but much less here. All that matters is Sunak being able to say he met some arbitrary target he set himself.

"UK was heavily involved in ECHR creation. UK was first country to ratify it and Lord McNair was first President of ECtHR. ECHR was, to significant extent, a UK invention, designed to internationalise the constitutional values which British subjects had long enjoyed": Lord Sales "As UK came to lose cases in Strasbourg, judicial sense of unease set in. Judges became conscious rulings might be subject to ECtHR review and willing to refer to ECHR to demonstrate that English law conformed with it. Even before HRA, it became impossible to ignore": Lord Sales

What?!

https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1627701168439787520

https://twitter.com/mistermtbp/status/1627707099554754560?s=20

"The Government’s proposals to replace the Human Rights Act and change how human rights are protected in the UK would create large-scale uncertainty and seriously damage people’s ability to enforce their rights": @HumanRightsCtte. "The Bill of Rights Bill is likely to seriously weaken the ability of individuals to seek redress for human rights breaches. Under the reforms, new barriers would be created that would make it harder for people to enforce their rights inside and outside court": @HumanRightsCtte.

"Home Office hiring asylum decision-makers from customer service and sales positions at McDonald’s, Tesco and Aldi as part of a recruitment drive to clear its huge backlog of asylum applications. The new recruits, have no prior experience or knowledge of the asylum system". "Many are placed on temporary contracts, typically for three months. Despite being promised comprehensive training, decision-makers report being “left to fend for themselves” after two days, and having to conduct complex asylum interviews and make “life or death” decisions".

"Anti-British activist lawyers".

Disgusting language from a minister in a disgusting government.

@TheLawSociety, @thebarcouncil, Head of the Bar @VictoriaPrentis and others need to condemn this appalling attack on the legal profession as strongly as possible.

https://twitter.com/andreajenkyns/status/1588221503505670147

"Quantity of migrants".

No one uses "quantity" for people.

Obviously these people are just vermin or viruses etc to this government.

Afghan family with young children has been detained in a tent for a month because of Home Office’s “chaotic” response to Channel crossings.

Officials admitted to MPs that asylum seekers were being kept for weeks at a facility intended for 24-hour periods.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… 3,000 people are detained at the former RAF base, where cases of diphtheria and scabies are reported. There are no cooking facilities and asylum seekers are sleeping on mats on the floor. The chief inspector of Borders and Immigration was left “speechless” by what he saw there.

"UK Govt should not have concluded the agreement to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda as a mere political agreement without parliamentary scrutiny or legally enforceable safeguards": House of Lords committee "The committee questions use of MoU, rather than treaty, as vehicle for relocation of asylum seekers. MoUs are not legally binding. Consequently, safeguards set out in the UK-Rwanda MoU for relocated individuals are not legally enforceable either by the individuals or by the UK".

Just how did we allow our country to be brought to this awful, humiliating, degrading place, by these childish, criminally irresponsible charlatans?

https://twitter.com/ShoaibMKhan/status/1582025400028344320

We didn't even vote for the Cheesy Pork Markets woman!

Why are we being held hostage by her?

I know it's @SuellaBraverman's dream, but how is this not absolutely, unbelievably disgusting?

"A heavily pregnant rape survivor from Eritrea has been threatened with forced removal to Rwanda by the Home Office".

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/o… "The 28-year-old woman, who is 37 weeks pregnant, is in a state of acute distress about the threatened removal. Doctors say scans show her baby has stopped growing and that she may need to be induced".

Shameless, disgusting, inhumane Tories!

EU Court of Justice: Religion and belief are a single ground of discrimination. Art 1 of Dir 2000/78 must be interpreted as meaning that the words ‘religion or belief’ constitute one ground of discrimination covering both religious belief and philosophical or spiritual belief. EU Court: Prohibiting workers from manifesting their beliefs does not constitute direct discrimination, provided that provision is applied in a general and undifferentiated way. Such a rule, applied in a general & undifferentiated way, does not establish difference in treatment.

We live in a world where the legitimacy of the ECHR and ECtHR continues to be undermined. Let me take this occasion to state Ireland’s view very clearly: the European Convention on Human Rights must remain the cornerstone of human rights’ protection across Europe: @PresidentIRL. To those who suggest there is a tension between parliamentary democracy and international protection of human rights, I respond unequivocally that parliaments flourish when rights are vindicated, upheld and promoted, not where they are delayed, judged or rejected: @PresidentIRL.

Lord Lloyd-Jones is re-appointed to his position as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and Sir David Richards is appointed as a Justice to fill the vacancy created by Lady Arden’s retirement.

supremecourt.uk/news/new-appoi… Of 12 @UKSupremeCourt justices, 11 are white men. 1 is a white woman.

There are more Davids (3) than there are women.

In June, I asked @ukhomeoffice how much the cancelled deportation flight to Rwanda cost us. Two months later, they have replied, refusing to disclose the costs.

How can they just refuse to tell the public how much money of ours they are wasting on their unlawful actions? @ukhomeoffice Even regardless of legality, morality, popularity of govt's actions, they should not be allowed to conceal how they spend *our* money.

Even if they're doing the most amazing job and all their actions are wonderful, they should be *obliged* to tell us how much each thing costs.

"Modern slavery law has inadvertently turned into one of the biggest loopholes in our immigration system, allowing illegal immigrants and criminals to remain in UK".

When law made by *Theresa May* has to be reformed because it's too humane and generous.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/1… "We should raise proof threshold [for] modern slavery claims, to require more than just a vaguely plausible story with no supporting evidence. We should require hard corroborating evidence".

Idiots like @CPhilpOfficial want *slaves* to submit "hard evidence" of their slavery.

Just like in most modern societies it's the poorest people who are most generous, helpful and humane, it's poor third-world countries that host vast majority of the world's refugees.

The world's 6th richest country takes the tiniest possible number and is still always moaning. I mean, just look at those numbers. Comparatively, we take almost no one.

Shameful we're always first to create refugees, but never want to take anyone.

We colonised half the world and exploited people for labour for centuries. But if your life's in danger, you're on your own.

Seems High Court has refused to grant a generic injunction to block the flight deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda next week.

Saying each case must be considered individually. Wish judge would sum up in one sentence before giving the reasoned decision...

But this does seem correct. No generic relief granted. So flight is not blocked. But chance that human rights/refugee law may be breached in individual cases, so each must be considered individually.

This is hilarious from Downing Street, about Rwanda deportations.

Not "We are confident we will win" or "We are confident this policy is lawful". But,"if we have to go to court, we will argue our case".

Even they know, and have known from the outset, that it's unlawful. Doesn't exactly reek of confidence. When you're being sued and your official statement says "We wish to categorically, 100%, with utmost certainty, assure our supporters and funders that we will definitely attend court".

I'd rather you didn't waste my money by attending, TBH.

"People seeking asylum in the UK will be flown 4,500 miles to Rwanda as part of a government crackdown on unauthorised migrants to be announced by Boris Johnson".

Shameful, immoral, inhumane, irresponsible policy. Should be unlawful.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a… Boris Johnson will give a speech tomorrow on how wonderful and safe Rwanda is.

For now, this is what his government says about Rwanda.

This is where they want to send vulnerable, traumatised people fleeing persecution and war.

gov.uk/foreign-travel…

"Govt proposal to reform Human Rights Act may weaken human rights protections. Proposals to replace it with ‘British’ Bill of Rights would cause confusion & cause more cases sent to ECtHR. Attempt to strengthen free speech would weaken other rights": Parliament's @HumanRightsCtte @HumanRightsCtte "Govt measures to strengthen rights will have the opposite effect. Further restricting who can bring a human rights claim or reducing damages owed to claimants perceived to be being undeserving would breach fundamental principle that human rights are universal": @HumanRightsCtte