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An Albanian asylum seeker and suspected trafficking victim told The Guardian he was in a “very bad mental state” as he waited on a deportation flight to Rwanda, a country about which he knew “nothing”.
The 26-year-old Albanian is one of the seven asylum seekers who have launched last minute legal challenges to avoid flying by force to the East African country, a decision of Great Britain.
Others include three Iranians, an Iraqi asylum seeker and a Vietnamese. They all arrived in the UK in small boats in mid-May.
The suspected victims of trafficking are supposed to be fully investigated before leaving the UK. The Albanian said: “In Albania I have been exploited by traffickers for six months. I was trafficked to France. I did not know where they were taking me. “
He said when he was boarded on a small boat in northern France, he was told that other traffickers would be waiting for him when he arrived in the UK. “I am in a very bad mental state. I knew nothing about Rwanda. I have never been to Africa and I do not think it will be safe for me. I can not return to Albania because I will be killed by traffickers there. The only safe place for me is MB. How can they send an Albanian to Africa? ”
Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights has made a dramatic intervention in recent hours to ban these flights to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. Lawyers for one of the asylum seekers who will fly tonight have made an urgent successful request to the ECHR after exhaustion of claims in UK courts.
The decision is a blow to Boris Johnson’s main policy of sending asylum seekers 4,000 miles to the East African country.
This comes after the prime minister threatened to oust Britain from the ECHR and accused lawyers of helping criminals exploiting refugees.
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