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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

Afghan man who came to UK as child tried to take his own life after being threatened with removal to Rwanda

Hakim Khan

An Afghan man who came to the UK as a child says he tried to take his own life after being told he faces deportation to Rwanda under the government’s new asylum removal policy.

Hakim Khan, 32, told The Independent he would “rather die” than be sent to the east African nation after he was detained at Brook House removal centre this month.

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