An asylum seeker who was due on the UK's first deportation flight to Rwanda has claimed he was hit, kicked and pushed by security officers while he was held in detention
Zahir said he was then put inside a van and told that if he moved"too much", they would"tie" him up.
The 25-year-old had travelled 3,500 miles through Turkey and Europe after fleeing Iraq, mostly in the back of a lorry organised by human traffickers.
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