Home Office threatens hunger strikers with faster deportation to Rwanda

Letter seen as potential warning to 17 asylum seekers who began protest after being given offshoring date

Asylum seekers who went on hunger strike over plans to send them to Rwanda have been threatened with faster deportation by the Home Office if they do not eat.

At least 17 people from Syria, Egypt and Sudan, who are being held at the Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport, began the protest when they were told they would be sent to Rwanda on 14 June as part of a controversial new scheme.