Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Human rights campaigners celebrated late Tuesday after a Europe an court ruling led to the cancellation of a flight to deport asylum-seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda as part of a controversial deal the governments unveiled in April. 'We will continue the fight tomorrow and against EVERY racist deportation.' 'We fought back against the government's racist Rwanda plan and WON,' tweeted the London-based Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants .
'Rwandan authorities have said the agreement would initially last for five years, with the British government paying PS120 million upfront to pay for housing and integrating the asylum-seekers,' The Associated Press noted. 'Britain is expected to pay more as Rwanda accepts more migrants, although the exact number of people the U.K. is expected to send isn't known.' Patel on Tuesday described the U.K.
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