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Asylum seekers risked all to get to the UK, then they were deported at dawn
Asylum seekers risk their lives to cross the Channel to reach Britain in small dinghies. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images
Asylum seekers risk their lives to cross the Channel to reach Britain in small dinghies. Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images
Asylum seekers fled from war and repression. But many who crossed the Channel were put on early deportation flights, restrained, brutalised and denied legal safeguards
Sat 29 May 2021 09.17 EDT
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At 7.15am, half an hour before charter flight Esparto 11 took off from Stansted airport, a detainee with a documented history of self-harm asked to use the plane’s bathroom. He was taken to the toilet by an escort working for the Home Office who held the door ajar with his foot and, after several minutes, peered inside to discover the detainee had slashed his wrist with a blade.
At 7.15am, half an hour before charter flight Esparto 11 took off from Stansted airport, a detainee with a documented history of self-harm asked to use the plane’s bathroom. He was taken to the toilet by an escort working for the Home Office who held the door ajar with his foot and, after several minutes, peered inside to discover the detainee had slashed his wrist with a blade. Pinning the man with his body weight to gain “control”, another.
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