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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

‘Better to die than go to Rwanda’: the asylum seekers in UK living in fear

Hope Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda
Hope Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda, to which the Home Office plans to send asylum seekers from the UK. Photograph: Luke Dray/Getty Images

In an Ibis hotel more than 200 miles away from London’s high court, which will tomorrow consider controversial plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, dozens of asylum seekers from Syria talk of little else.

They say they are terrified of ending up in the east African country. All have recently arrived in the UK and know they are prime targets to be forced on to a plane should judges determine the scheme to be lawful, because they travelled here in small boats and have only been in the UK for a matter of weeks.

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