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Campaigners celebrate victory after ‘last resort’ airline pulls out of government's Rwanda deportation scheme
Privilege Style says it will no longer participate with Tory scheme following email campaign by torture survivors and refugee organisations
Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, protesting against the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwandam in September 2022

MIGRANT rights campaigners celebrated a victory today after the government’s “last resort” charter airline, hired to deport people to Rwanda, cut ties to the project.

Privilege Style said it will no longer operate flights to the east African country following an email campaign by torture survivors and refugee organisations.

The Spanish airline became the last option for the government’s deportation flights after other airlines refused.

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