Swiss parliamentary committee backs plan to deport asylum seekers  

A committee of the Swiss House of Representatives has approved a scheme to repatriate rejected Eritrean asylum seekers to Africa via a third country, such as Rwanda. Just this week, the British Parliament passed a similar bill—the so-called Rwanda bill. The House of Representatives’ relevant committee has approved the Radical-Liberal Party’s controversial proposal for a Swiss asylum agreement by 14 votes to 11. The proposal, which was approved on Friday, comes from Petra Gössi, a member of the Radical-Liberal Party in the Senate.