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> The new UN human rights chief has urged the British government to reconsider its plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning that in the past similar "Offshoring" schemes had led to "Deeply inhuman" treatment of refugees.

> Türk, an Austrian lawyer and former assistant high commissioner at the UN refugee agency, said he had seen how Australia's offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, had been marked by human rights abuses.

> "The way that asylum seekers were treated in Nauru and Manus was deeply, deeply inhuman," said Türk. The UK government rejects any comparison between the two schemes as "Fundamentally wrong", insisting that the deportees will have their asylum claims processed by Rwanda in accordance with international human rights law and will not be detained while that process is ongoing.

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