A trainee engineer, who fled war-torn Sudan six years ago and arrived in the UK two weeks ago without knowing about the Rwanda plan, says he wrote a will and a goodbye letter to his family after learning he would be among the first destined for the east African nation.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she is 'pushing ahead' with the Rwanda plan to tackle the migration crisis. File picA Channel migrant has said he has been left"traumatised" by the prospect of being deported from the UK and is prepared to take his own life rather than be sent to Rwanda.
The trainee engineer, who fled war-torn Sudan six years ago, said he wrote a will and a goodbye letter to his family after learning he would be among the first destined for the east African nation. The government has been forced to delay the first flights after campaigners lodged legal challenges against the controversial policy.Speaking to the Press Association news agency through an Arabic interpreter from the
in West Sussex, the Sudanese migrant, who wanted to be known only as Ali, said:"I will kill myself before I get deported - if the UK as a government and a country cannot uphold human rights, who will?"He had spent two years in detention in Libya where he said he was tortured, before making his way through continental Europe to Calais. He waited there for seven months before crossing the Channel in a boat.
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