First 'one in, one out' returnee faces Syria deportation after France rejects asylum claim

A 26-year-old man faces potential return to Syria where he risks forced conscription or death; separated from his mother and siblings during smuggling, experiencing severe stress-related hair loss.

A young Kurdish Syrian man, displaced by the threat of forced conscription and separated from his family during a desperate flight, now finds himself suspended between three countries after Britain's bilateral deportation agreement with France produced an outcome its architects did not publicly anticipate. France, to which he was returned under the UK's 'one in, one out' scheme, has rejected his asylum claim and deemed Syria safe — a conclusion that sits uneasily with international refugee law and echoes the legal controversies that felled Britain's earlier Rwanda policy. His case asks an anci

First 'one in, one out' returnee faces Syria deportation after France rejects asylum claim

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