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“I can not eat, I can not sleep. “Why should I go to Rwanda?”
Zahir, 25, who did not want to be named, left Iraq two months ago.
He said his life was in danger after he clashed with a family member who had ties to the government and threatened to kill him.
His 3,500-mile journey through Turkey and Europe lasted about a month, mostly traveling in the back of a truck on a trip organized by human traffickers.
He spent another nine days in Calais before boarding a boat to go to the UK, touching the shore on 23 May this year.
Less than a month after stepping on the beaches of Dover, he was told by UK officials that he and a friend he traveled with would be on the first flight to Rwanda on Tuesday.
Speaking to Sky News by telephone from the Colnbrook House Detention Center near Heathrow, he said: I was told you would go to Rwanda tomorrow. But we ask ‘why go to Rwanda tomorrow?’
“We are very, very nervous, we are very, very unhappy. We do not know what to do. We do not know why we are here. “
The chances of a legal challenge are dwindling and the chances of Zahiri flying 6,000 miles to another continent and in a very uncertain future are increasing even more.
He says: I can not eat, do not sleep, nothing. We do not want to go to Rwanda. The Interior Ministry asked me, “Why are you leaving Iraq? Why do you want to seek asylum? ” and I just said that “my life is in danger.
“They say ‘OK’ and give us a ticket to say the case has been rejected. And they give us a ticket, the departure direction to Rwanda. “They did not ask another question what happened, or why, with whom.”
At a similar detention center, Brook House in Gatwick, Sayed, (not his real name) and his friend have managed to delay their deportation to Rwanda.
Both are from Afghanistan. Sayed left in 2018 and his friend Abdul left last year after the Taliban took control of the country. Abdul claims to have been injured by an explosion and still has pain from the wound.
“The Taliban tried to kill him”says Sayed, talking on the phone inside the detention center.
“He was hit by a bomb. He still suffers. He has a lot of pain in his head, hand, body. “He always goes to the doctor and takes pills.”
Sayed first came to the UK at the age of 15 in 2008, then he went to France and was stopped returning by boat earlier this year.
He paid the traffickers 9 1,900 to cross over the English Channel again. He has families in Birmingham and hopes to be able to join them. He says he and Abdul would rather die than be deported to Rwanda.
“We will kill ourselves. It’s very difficult for us you know. We have fled our country, and they are now sending us to Rwanda. This is not right. We want our rights in the UK. “I have never heard of Rwanda in my life.”
There is little for Sayed and Abdul to do but wait.
Behind the barbed wire fences at Brook House, detainees can see a brief glimpse of planes flying on the runway at Gatwick Airport, right across the street. None of them know for sure if they will soon be on a plane going to Africa.
If they do, it is not because they have no right to seek asylum in the UK, but because they came to the UK paying traffickers to cross the Channel by boat, and the government believes this policy will prevent them from others who do the same.
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