Politicians call for suspension of deportations to Zimbabwe

Campaigners have criticised the Home Office for seeking to fast-track the removal of a number of failed asylum seekers, some of who have been living in the UK for more than 10 years

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Alannah Francis

POLITICIANS HAVE deemed Zimbabwe a human rights-free zone and called for deportations to the country to be suspended.

Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, Labour peer Peter Hain said: “Given the current climate in Zimbabwe, which is a human rights-free zone, and with President Mnangagwa and his military henchmen cracking down on individual freedom and particularly the opposition, nobody should be deported, especially when families are protesting about the desperate situation they will probably face.”

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