Letters to asylum seekers assured them UNHCR was ‘closely involved’ in deportation scheme, high court hears

An urgent legal challenge to stop the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda has been told that Priti Patel’s department misled refugees about the official involvement of the United Nations refugee agency.

Letters sent by the Home Office to those seeking asylum assured them that the UNHCR was “closely involved” in the scheme to send people to the east African country, the high court was told.

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