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Refugee campaigners rally in Manchester demanding the release of asylum seekers ‘round up’ for Rwanda
[Rhetta Moran]

PROTESTERS rallied outside a Home Office refugee reporting centre in Manchester today demanding the release of asylum-seekers held by the government.

Campaign groups said that despite the government putting its failed Rwanda scheme on hold, and a Labour commitment to dump the plan, men and women earmarked for deportation are still in custody.

Campaign groups have joined forces in north-west England to fight for the release of detainees and the scrapping of the Rwanda laws.

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