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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Government adverts launched to warn of misinformation from people smugglers

Government adverts have been launched in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as part of a Government efforts to tackle people smugglers. (Home Office/PA) -

Adverts of migrants’ experiences coming to the UK, such as forced labour and the dangers of crossing the English Channel, have been launched in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as part of Government efforts to tackle people smugglers.

One video shares an account of a man blurred out with text reading “the boat was too crowded” and “people disappeared into the sea” as it shows another photo of a deflated dinghy in the water.

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