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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor

Suicidal Afghan was ‘fine’ about being sent to Rwanda, Home Office officials claimed

Colnbrook detention centre
Colnbrook detention centre. Combined with its neighbour, Harmondsworth, it forms Heathrow immigration removal centre, the largest such facility in Europe. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Alamy

The Home Office is claiming that asylum seekers are “fine” with being sent to Rwanda, even after they have threatened to kill themselves in detention as they wait to be removed to Africa, according to internal documents seen by the Observer.

They reveal that Home Office officials described how an individual being held in immigration detention “was fine with going there [Rwanda]” days after he had threatened to kill himself amid anxiety he would never see his children again.

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