We’re to be offshored next week – I can’t tell you how desperate it makes me. We can’t believe a great country treats us this way, says the Secret asylum seeker
We’re to be offshored next week – I can’t tell you how desperate it makes me. We can’t believe a great country treats us this wayPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesI am an asylum seeker from Iran. I have been given a notice from the Home Office that I will be one of thoseI don’t know how you would feel about that prospect. For my part, I am considering suicide to avoid being forcibly sent there.
This is not what we ever expected of Britain. We all fled our home countries for one reason only – because our lives were in danger. We hoped that coming to the UK would save us but it looks like we were wrong about this. I felt I had to try. I had a senior, responsible job in my home country. But I opposed the government, and doing this put my life in danger.14 months ago and crossed the border to Turkey on foot. From Turkey I took a boat to Italy and then I travelled to northern France. I paid smugglers for my journey and it was the smugglers who selected the UK for me to come to.
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