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7 May 2024

  • Saibai Island

    Five men in custody after ‘unauthorised’ crossing into Australia through Torres Strait

    Australian Border Force officers picked up the men, believed to be Rwandan nationals, on Saibai Island, near Papua New Guinea
  • Man standing in a residential street facing away from the camera.

    ‘Nightmares about Rwanda’: Iranian asylum seeker facing deportation from UK

    Engineer living in Liverpool says he fears being arrested at any moment after receiving deportation notice
  • Immigration officers next to a custody van

    Home Office faces fallout from Rwanda roundup as asylum seekers hide or flee

    Charities fear ‘increasing risks of destitution and exploitation’ of refugees as they go missing

5 May 2024

  • Hope Hostel

    Rwanda admits it can’t guarantee how many asylum seekers it will take in from UK

    About 52,000 people are eligible under the scheme, but a government spokesperson said Kigali would accept ‘thousands’
  • Colnbrook

    ‘I will kill myself on arrival’: Syrian asylum seeker fears Rwanda will not be safe

    Khaled is waiting to be deported from the Colnbrook centre where, he says, many are struggling to cope with what lies ahead
  • People protest against the Rwanda deportation bill outside Downing Street on 1 May.

    Tory Rwanda plan is driven by desperation

    Letter: The scheme ignores the reality that those desperate enough to cross the Channel are willing to accept risks, write Jamie and Debbie Hawker

4 May 2024

  • Protesters clashing with police officers

    ‘They hear a bang at the door and it’s the Home Office’: threat of being ‘disappeared’ haunts asylum seekers amid Rwanda crackdown

  • People gather at the side of an explosion in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Bomb attacks in Congo kill at least 12 people including children

3 May 2024

  • An inside courtyard with rooms opening off different levels and potted palms on the floor

    Detained asylum seekers given Home Office booklet saying Rwanda is ‘generally safe’

    Glossy promotional leaflet handed out to asylum seekers detained under Rishi Sunak’s deportation policy

  • ‘Disrupt whenever possible’: police clash with protesters blocking bus to Bibby Stockholm – video

    Hundreds of protesters prevented an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a south London hotel and transfer them to the Bibby Stockholm barge
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Disappearing migrants and street revolts. Sunak’s Rwanda round-up is just the mess we knew it would be

    Gaby Hinsliff
    The policy has always been a sordid theatre of cruelty, and it is unravelling in ways that were entirely predictable, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

1 May 2024

  • Children holding placards outside parliament

    Lone children at risk of deportation to Rwanda after being classified as adults, says charity

    Refugee Council issues warning after children wrongly issued with notices of intent by Home Office
  • People hold signs including 'The Rwanda plan is not the will of the people','Refugees welcome here' and 'No to Rwanda deportations. Stop the flights'.

    UK ministers acknowledge detention of asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda

    Dozens of detentions have taken place across UK, say sources, as move prompts demonstrations around country

    • The Guardian view on policy and propaganda: desperate Tories are blurring the line

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      Scotland’s SNP government wins no confidence vote called by Labour – as it happened

    • 'Fascist nonsense': SNP MP reacts to Home Office migrant detention video

30 April 2024

  • The sign for Lunar House in Croydon, with the Home Office logo

    Man detained by Home Office told he is being sent to Rwanda, says NGO

  • Owen Jones

    Never mind stop the boats: Sunak is using fear to build a life raft for himself. But the people will stop him

    Owen Jones
  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza looks towards the camera at the high court in Kigali

    Rwandan opposition leader voices doubts Kigali will stick to UK asylum deal

  • Victoria Atkins sits in front of an illustration of Big Ben

    Home Office has lost contact with thousands of potential Rwanda deportees, data shows

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