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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor

Detained asylum seekers given Home Office booklet saying Rwanda is ‘generally safe’

An inside courtyard with rooms opening off different levels and potted palms on the floor
Images of Hope hostel appeared in the leaflet. The accommodation in Kigali is to be used to house asylum seekers sent from the UK. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Asylum seekers who have been detained under Rishi Sunak’s deportation policy are being handed a colourful promotional document entitled: “I’m being relocated to Rwanda. What does it mean to me?”

The news came as the government faced a second legal challenge over the prime minister’s £500m policy and it emerged that dozens of asylum seekers were being forcibly taken to detention centres.

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