{"id":49444,"date":"2022-10-18T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/tamil-refugees-on-chagos-islands-fear-deportation-under-rwanda-type-plan"},"modified":"2022-10-18T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:14:38","slug":"tamil-refugees-on-chagos-islands-fear-deportation-under-rwanda-type-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49444","title":{"rendered":"Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country<\/p>\n<p>Tamil refugees seeking asylum from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/03\/the-chagos-islands-a-millstone-around-the-neck-of-british-diplomacy\">British-claimed Chagos Islands<\/a> face being forcibly removed to a third country under Rwanda-style plans drawn up by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p>Government lawyers have told the asylum seekers that if they cannot be returned to Sri Lanka they will instead be removed to another undisclosed country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/tamil-refugees-on-chagos-islands-fear-deportation-under-rwanda-type-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed countryTamil refugees seeking asylum from the British-claimed Chagos Islands face being forcibly removed to a third country under Rwanda-style plans dra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[753,53,717,61,674,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chagos-islands","category-human-rights","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49445,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49444\/revisions\/49445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}