In April 2022, the government announced a new policy to reduce migration to the UK that involved sending asylum seekers who reached British soil without permission to have their claims processed in Rwanda.

The Rwanda policy has been debated in the media and in courts of law for the past 18 months and the most crucial legal case yet is being decided right now in the Supreme Court.

I’m Mary, and in this episode of Noted, I want to understand how this policy fits into the bigger picture of migration in the UK.

Molly Blackall, the i Paper’s global affairs correspondent, has been covering the policy since it was announced. She shares why it's been so controversial and what might come next.

Kolbassia Haussou, a torture survivor and spokesperson for Freedom From Torture, tells me about his own experience of seeking asylum in the UK.

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*As of 15th November 2023, the Rwanda policy was deemed as unlawful by the Supreme Court. We’ll keep you up to date on this story, follow The News Movement socials for more.*

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