Home Office threatens to send heavily pregnant rape survivor to Rwanda

A number of cases are going through the courts, challenging the government’s as yet unsuccessful attempts to send migrants to Rwanda. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty

A heavily pregnant rape survivor from Eritrea has been threatened with forced removal to Rwanda by the Home Office.

Human rights campaigners say it is the “most egregious” case they have come across so far in the government’s scheme to outsource the processing of UK asylum claims to the east African country.