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UK announces launch of asylum resettlement scheme for Rwanda, sparks hunger strike – BBC News

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UK announces launch of asylum resettlement scheme for Rwanda, sparks hunger strike – BBC News
  • Mohamed Shalaby, Emir Nader
  • BBC Arabic

June 6, 2022 at 1:00 am

Asylum seekers at a British immigration detention centre said they went on a hunger strike after being told they would be deported to Rwanda.

Seventeen asylum seekers at Brookhouse Detention Centre near Gatwick Airport in Sussex told the BBC about the distress and desperation that pervaded detainees.

In April, the British government announced plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.

But the Home Office said the well-being of detainees was “critical”.

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