Suicidal Afghan was ‘fine’ about being sent to Rwanda, Home Office officials claimed

Campaigners accuse the government of creating an alternative reality to suit its cruel' deportation agenda

The Home Office is claiming that asylum seekers are fine" with being sent to Rwanda, even after they have threatened to kill themselves in detention as they wait to be removed to Africa, according to internal documents seen by the Observer.

They reveal that Home Office officials described how an individual being held in immigration detention was fine with going there [Rwanda]" days after he had threatened to commit suicide amid anxiety he would never see his children again.