A detailed clinical review of the backgrounds of asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK and likely to be sent to Rwanda has found many may have been tortured. The research by charity Medical Justice questions how people have so far been selected for the proposed flights. The plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is being challenged next week in the High Court. The government says the scheme will help end people smuggling and dangerous crossings of the English Channel. The Home Office’s £120m plan aims to send some of those who cross the English Channel on to the African nation to have their claims dealt with there. If they are found to be in genuine need of protection, Rwanda would offer them resettlement, rather than sending them back to the UK. The plan is widely opposed by asylum experts, including the United Nations’ refugee agency. The first planned flight was aborted in June after the European Court of Human Rights said judges in London must first rule on whether it was lawful.