Iraqi migrant in UK fears Rwanda deportation, despite reprieve

Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) June 20, 2022

Nearly a week ago, Iraqi Kurd Barham Hama Ali found himself in the unimaginable position of being aboard a deportation flight set to take off for Kigali, thousands of miles from home. The 25-year-old was among a handful of asylum seekers who were due to be the first of many sent from the United Kingdom under a controversial resettlement deal with Rwanda. "We were seven migrants, each on