‘Please stop the plane’: asylum seekers plead before Rwanda deportation flight

Mentally exhausted' expected deportees launched last-minute legal bids to avoid removal from UK

An Albanian asylum seeker and suspected victim of trafficking has told the Guardian he is in a very bad mental state" as he expects to board a deportation flight to Rwanda, a country of which he knows nothing".

The 26-year-old Albanian man is one of seven asylum seekers who have launched last-minute legal challenges to avoid being forcibly flown to the east African country.