Despite UN Criticism, UK To Send Asylum Seekers To Rwanda

A chartered plane is set to leave one of London's airports overnight and land in Kigali on Wednesday, campaigners said.

The British government was due to send a first plane carrying failed asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-ditch legal bids to block the deportations, mounting protests and UN criticism.

A chartered plane is set to leave one of London's airports overnight and land in Kigali on Wednesday, campaigners said, after British judges on Monday rejected an appeal against the deportations.

Claimants had argued that a decision on the policy should have waited until a full court hearing on the legality of the policy next month.

Thirty-one migrants were due to be sent but one of the claimants, the NGO Care4Calais, tweeted that 23 of them had now had their tickets cancelled.