N.Ireland court blocks UK law to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda

Demonstrators hold placards as they protest near the gates of 10 Downing Street in central London on May 8, 2024 during an anti-racism rally.

A High Court judge in Belfast on Monday ruled that a UK law allowing asylum-seekers to be deported to Rwanda should be disapplied in Northern Ireland on human rights grounds.Judge Michael Humphreys ruled in favour of separate challenges to the legislation that creates powers to detain asylum-seekers and remove them from the United Kingdom to...