Deportation Blocked

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Home Office plans to send Darfuri asylum seekers back to Sudan have been blocked by senior judges.

The Court of Appeal in London said the three asylum seekers could not be sent to Sudan’s capital Khartoum.

The three appeal judges said oppressive conditions in refugee camps would be “unduly harsh” on the individuals.

Darfur has seen conflict between black and Arab Sudanese people. The Home Office said the men would be safe in Khartoum and will challenge the ruling…

The UK immigration service had planned to put the three men, who are black [well who’d’ve guessed?], on a plane to Sudan.

It had planned to place them in a refugee camp near to the capital Khartoum – on the other side of the country from Darfur. The removal was approved at an earlier hearing before asylum adjudicators.

In their challenge, the three men, identified only as AH, IG and NM, said they risked torture at the hands of the Sudanese government.

They also said they would be deported to extremely poor conditions in squatter or refugee camps on the edge of the capital.

The three had been subsistence farmers before fleeing, saying they had faced persecution from the Arab Janjaweed militia.