Rwanda says UN refugee agency lying in British asylum policy case

People, motorists and motorcyclists move along a street in the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda, on April 26, 2024. REUTERS

Rwanda said the UN refugee agency had lied when the organisation told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death.

Lawyers representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told the court on Monday that Rwanda's asylum system was inadequate, as part of a challenge to the British government's policy to deport asylum seekers there.