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

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Protestors demand a halt to the deportation of asylum-seekers to Rwanda. [AFP]

A judge at the High Court in Belfast on Monday ruled that a UK law allowing asylum-seekers to be deported to Rwanda should not apply to Northern Ireland on human rights grounds.

Political parties in the British-run province, which, like Scotland, has a separate legal system to England and Wales, said the judgement made the controversial Rwanda scheme unworkable.

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