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Protesters chanted “no Rwanda” as they rallied outside an immigration removal centre in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week.
Demonstrators shook the outer fence of an immigration removal centre on Sunday in protest against the government’s Rwanda policy – and people inside the facility appeared to be shouting back.
Scores of activists marched to the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, close to Gatwick Airport, near Crawley, West Sussex.
Dozens of activists shouted “we are with you,” “set them free” and “deportations no more … Britain is a racist state.”
Some activists banged the outer fence of the immigration centre and people inside the compound sounded like they were chanting back.
In unison with protesters, people inside appeared to chant: “No Rwanda”.
UK judge rejects bid to stop asylum seekers from being sent to Rwanda
The plans would see some people who have entered the UK illegally flown to Rwanda to seek asylum there.
A High Court ruling means the first flight to the east African country could proceed on Tuesday but campaigners are due to challenge this in the Court of Appeal on Monday.
At the protest, teacher Jane Fisher, of Croydon, south London, who volunteers with Care for Calais, which delivers emergency aid to refugees, said: “There is a young boy called Sami and he was from Afghanistan, his parents and his sister were blown up in a car bomb and he is 17 and he has come across.
“He is really frightened he is going to be sent to Rwanda.
“He keeps asking about it because the refuges don’t know what is happening.
“I meet some amazing people and all of them have got horrible stories.”

Abbas Artan, 24, an asylum seeker originally from Somalia who crossed from Calais to the UK in a small boat in October, says he has been living in limbo at the Radisson Red hotel near Gatwick Airport for the past eight months.
On the Rwanda policy, he said: “The government must stop this because the people suffer a lot.
“Someone comes here to change his life, to send them back to Rwanda when there is nothing there … some people have said ‘I will kill myself if I’m sent there’.”
He said he fled Somalia because the militant jihadist group al-Shabab tried to recruit him as a soldier and knocked out his teeth with the butt of a gun when he refused.
His journey to the UK saw him cross from Somalia to Ethiopia, then Sudan, Libya, Italy, Sweden, Germany and France, before crossing the Channel.
UK government accused of trying to deport minors to Rwanda
Christian Hogsberg, 42, a history lecturer at the University of Brighton, said he was at the protest against the government’s Rwanda policy to “show solidarity with refugees who are facing the danger of deportation to authoritarian regime Rwanda at the hands of a Tory Government that is playing the race card in the most shameful manner.”
He accused ministers of trying to get Britons “to blame people who are some of the poorest and most powerless people in the world rather than those who are really responsible for the cost-of-living crisis in our country.”
Up to 130 people have been told they could be deported, and on Friday the High Court in London heard that 31 people were expected on the first flight, with the Home Office planning that more planes will go later this year.
The first claim against the policy was brought by lawyers on behalf of some asylum seekers alongside the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), as well as groups Care4Calais and Detention Action, which are challenging the policy on behalf of everyone affected.
The Prince of Wales is reportedly “more than disappointed” by the Rwanda policy, allegedly privately calling it “appalling,” according to reports in The Times and the Daily Mail newspapers.

On Sunday, Rwanda’s lead negotiator for the deportation agreement with the UK said the country is ready to accept people in “tens of thousands” but will start on a gradual basis.
Doris Uwicyeza, chief technical adviser to the Rwandan Ministry of Justice, also defended Rwanda’s human rights record and said it was not illegal to be homosexual.
She told Tom Swarbrick on LBC: “Actually, based on our history we understand the importance of protecting anybody from hate speech and discrimination, this is not tolerated in our society, the freedom from discrimination due to sexual orientation of a person is guaranteed in our constitution and the rule of law is there to enforce that.”


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‘No Rwanda’ protest held at UK immigration removal centre

Demonstrators protest outside the UK’s Gatwick Airport on Sunday against a planned deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda. Photo: Reuters 

Protesters communicate with asylum seekers inside at the perimeter fence of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre beside Gatwick Airport, near London on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Britain’s Prince Charles has criticised the British government’s plan to start deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Photo: AP 

UK judge rejects emergency bid to stop asylum seekers from being sent to Rwanda

A UK military servicewoman carries a young child in the port of Dover in May, after the arrival of a group of people thought to be migrants following a small boat incident in the Channel. Photo: PA Wire via dpa

Migrants aboard a transport bus in Dover Harbour after being rescued while crossing the English Channel. Photo: Reuters

UK government accused of trying to deport unaccompanied minors to Rwanda

People prepare to disembark at Dover Docks after British Border Force Officials picked up a boat carrying migrants in the English Channel, in Dover, Britain. Photo: EPA-EFE

Britain’s Home Secretary Priti Patel at Buckingham Palace, London on Saturday. Photo: AFP

British campaigners ‘relieved’ as migrant evictions to Rwanda delayed

People arrive at Dover Docks after British Border Force Officials picked up a boat carrying migrants in the English Channel. Under a scheme designed to crack down on migrants landing on British shores after crossing the Channel in small boats, the UK intends to provide those deemed to have arrived unlawfully with a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Photo: EPA-EFE

Migrants arrive after crossing the English Channel in Dover, Britain. Under a scheme designed to crack down on migrants landing on British shores after crossing the Channel in small boats, the UK intends to provide those deemed to have arrived unlawfully with a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Photo: EPA-EFE

A group of migrants prepare to disembark from a UK Border Force boat at the port of Dover having being picked up crossing the English Channel from France. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Britain’s Rwanda plan might not deter migrants, says UK Home Office official

Migrants arrive after crossing the English Channel in Dover, UK on April 15. Photo: EPA-EFE

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The protest near Gatwick Airport was in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week
A High Court ruling means the first flight to Rwanda could proceed on Tuesday. Campaigners are expected to challenge this in the Court of Appeal on Monday



The protest at an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport was in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week.


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‘No Rwanda’ protest held at UK immigration removal centre

The protest near Gatwick Airport was in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week A High Court ruling means the first flight to Rwanda could proceed on Tuesday. Campaigners are expected to challenge this in the Court of Appeal on Monday

The protest near Gatwick Airport was in opposition to government plans to start sending migrants to the east African country from next week

A High Court ruling means the first flight to Rwanda could proceed on Tuesday. Campaigners are expected to challenge this in the Court of Appeal on Monday