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A Boeing 767 aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down, near Salisbury, which was believed to be the plane set for Rwanda. Picture date: Tuesday June 14, 2022.
THE “inhumane” treatment of detainees in the hours leading up to the cancelled Rwanda flight was described as “torture” by lawyers and campaigners today.
Asylum-seekers who had been due to be deported to the east African country on Tuesday night were put in restraints, handcuffed and dragged onto the plane before it was ultimately grounded.
Campaigners who were on the phone to detainees in those desperate hours told the Morning Star that while the asylum-seekers have been spared deportation for now, the trauma of that night will stay with them for the “rest of their lives.”
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
After being silenced and ejected from council meetings over Palestine, MARY MASON joined 3,000 activists from 50 countries in an ambitious attempt to break through to besieged Rafah — only to face police beatings and detention in the Egyptian desert
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants