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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Children deemed adults by Home Office could be deported to Rwanda

Protesters near Brook House immigration removal centre hold placards protesting against UK deportation flights to Rwanda
Campaigners say they regularly see the Home Office treating children as young as 14 as adults and there are no safeguards in place. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

Concerns are mounting that children wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office could end up being offshored to Rwanda.

The Guardian understands that three age-disputed children who the Home Office declared to be adults and detained in preparation for offshoring to Rwanda have now been released. It is understood that concerns have been raised about whether at least three more detainees threatened with removal to the east African country are children rather than adults.

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