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Home Office continues to target asylum-seekers for deportation to Rwanda
The first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off due to legal rulings. Picture date: Tuesday June 14, 2022.

CHARITIES have revealed that the Home Office has continued to target asylum-seekers for deportation to Rwanda, including women, children and torture survivors. 

Dozens of people are currently being held in detention pending removal to the east African nation. They include women, and children who have been wrongly assessed as adults, MPs have heard. 

This suggests that the Home Office is preparing a second flight to Rwanda even though ongoing litigation means that deportations to the country must be put on hold until a decision is reached. 

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