9/3/2026
Political Picture · international

‘I would rather die than return to France’: the brutal reality of the UK’s one in, one out scheme

Filed by Deacon Rift
‘I would rather die than return to France’: the brutal reality of the UK’s one in, one out scheme
Aso and Baran fled Iran, crossed the Channel together and were both returned to France. After risking their lives to reach Britain again, the friends found themselves facing very different fatesAt the end of last year, two men fled Iran. Aso and Baran* were strangers at the time. The way their stories would cross, then diverge, reveals the cruel arbitrariness of the UK asylum system in general, and the government’s controversial one in, one out scheme in particular.Before he left Iran, Aso, 28,
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