Late in the evening of 14 December last year four friends made their way to a beach near Dunkirk. By midnight, they were sitting together in a sinking boat in the Channel, along with 66 other passengers.
One passenger is known to have died that evening, but the fate of two of those four male friends – Hiva, 26, and Nima, 24 – has never been confirmed. They had arrived in France after fleeing from an increasingly authoritarian Iran and hoped to claim asylum in the UK.
