The British home secretary, Suella Braverman, took a group of journalists on a trip last week to reveal details of her £120m scheme to send all migrants arriving in the UK by irregular means to Rwanda, whether they claim asylum or not.
The legality of the scheme is due to be tested shortly in the UK court of appeal.
But the US, in its annual human rights assessment published on Monday, said Rwanda operated a system including dangerous prison conditions, arbitrary detention, serious restrictions on free expression including the imprisonment of journalists, and no effective system of collective bargaining.
Braverman has dismissed UK critics of Rwanda as part of a "leftwing blob", but it may be harder to dismiss the US findings.
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