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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

‘Please stop the plane’: asylum seekers plead before Rwanda deportation flight

A protester holds a placard saying 'Stop the Deportations' during a demonstration outside the Home Office.
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the Home Office on Sunday to oppose the Rwanda policy. Photograph: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

An Albanian asylum seeker and suspected victim of trafficking has told the Guardian he is in a “very bad mental state” as he expects to board a deportation flight to Rwanda, a country of which he knows “nothing”.

The 26-year-old Albanian man is one of seven asylum seekers who have launched last-minute legal challenges to avoid being forcibly flown to the east African country. Others include three Iranians, one Iraqi and one Vietnamese asylum seeker. All arrived in the UK on small boats in the middle of May.

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