{"id":53961,"date":"2023-03-31T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/31\/britain-grants-tamil-asylum-seekers-rescued-at-sea-safe-country-move"},"modified":"2023-03-31T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:48:35","slug":"britain-grants-tamil-asylum-seekers-rescued-at-sea-safe-country-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53961","title":{"rendered":"Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea \u2018safe-country\u2019 move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, from group rescued by Royal Navy and held on Diego Garcia, made offer while receiving medical attention in Rwanda<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/politics\/live\/2023\/mar\/31\/rishi-sunak-kemi-badenoch-trade-deal-conservatives-tory-labour-keir-starmer-latest-politics-updates\">Politics live &#8211; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two Tamil asylum seekers receiving medical treatment in Rwanda after being rescued from the Indian Ocean by the Royal Navy will be taken to a safe third country, a British commissioner has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The man and a woman, both aged 22, are among dozens of Tamil refugees, including alleged torture victims, who were stranded on the island of Diego Garcia in October 2021. They had been travelling in a boat hoping to reach safety in Canada but had to be escorted to the island by the Royal Navy after problems with their boat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/31\/britain-grants-tamil-asylum-seekers-rescued-at-sea-safe-country-move\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, from group rescued by Royal Navy and held on Diego Garcia, made offer while receiving medical attention in RwandaPolitics live &#8211; latest updatesTwo Tamil asylum seekers receiving medical treatment in Rwanda after being rescued from the India&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"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":[401,753,1879,4,494,2286,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-chagos-islands","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-refugees","category-rwanda","category-sri-lanka","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\/53961","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\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53962,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53961\/revisions\/53962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}