Darfur.
What should Britain do with failed asylum seekers from Darfur?
Next week the Home Office will formally respond to calls from major British refugee organisations to change its policy which sees such people on deporting failed Darfuri asylum-seekers to Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
The Government stopped such deportations in December, but then said they'd resumed...only to announce they would stop pending a test case.
One Darfuri national WAS deported to Khartoum during the brief window of deportations. The next Darfuri due to be deported lives in Swansea. His fate could be determined by the test case. He is Abubaker Yousef Mohamad, and here he is in his living room in Swansea.
Ray Furlong went to visit him yesterday. "He's sharing the house with two other asylum-seekers, hoping that a test-case expected in September will save him from deportation. He's already fled from Darfur twice and is not relishing the prospect of trying his luck in Sudan a third time. He's a member of the Falaata tribe, which has been targetted by Janjaweed militia. He told me a moving story of butchery and escape. The government says he would be safe in Khartoum, and I'm told it has also suggested his ties to Sudan's opposition Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) are not as close as he has claimed. He just says he's in fear for his life if he returns." More on the programme tonight
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