I fled Syria – Home Office plan to send people back is inhumane ...Middle East

A Syrian refugee who fled Aleppo amid the war has labelled the Home Office plan to send aslyum seekers back “inhumane” and “heartless”.

Ismail Azizi, who has refugee status in the UK, and therefore will not be subject to the scheme, said sending people back despite ongoing concerns of instability and violence would put them in danger.

His comments come after The i Paper learned that the Home Secretary is ploughing ahead with plans to increase removals to Syria, even as the UK Government has warned of the country’s deteriorating humanitarian situation.

Shabana Mahmood will make removals to Syria an early priority in her plan to force asylum seekers to return to countries previously deemed unsafe due to war.

The returns, which could be both voluntary and enforced, are likely to begin in the coming months.

Mr Azizi, whose mother, father, and 17-year-old brother are still in Aleppo, said that the UK government was “ignoring the reality” of the ongoing instability and potential for violence in his home country.

“I cannot describe it,” he told The i Paper, “because one day things are good, the next it’s horrible. You go to sleep, you wake up, you find someone dead.”

“I feel like the government try to act like they are good people, that they are better than Assad, but it’s just the same.”

The Syrian refugee described videos sent to him by his mother showing ongoing fighting between government forces and Kurdish-led rebels.

“My mother texts me that the situation is very bad, that we have war, same as when Assad was here, because the government have a problem with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party].”

Middle East minister Hamish Falconer this week warned that there had been an escalation in violence between the government and Kurdish-led rebels in Aleppo and north-east Syria, with an estimated 146,000 people displaced from their homes a a result.

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“The situation in Syria is not stable,” said Mr Azizi. “It’s just one year since the war finished. Do you think it takes just one year for a country to recover from a 14-year war? People being sent back, they have no chance of a life there”.

Bashar Al-Assad’s brutal regime was toppled in December 2024, but division has remains, with frequent outbreaks of sectarian violence since the revolution.

There have been brutal targeted attacks on the Alawite sect, to which the family of al-Assad belongs.

Syrian government forces said these killings were in response to initial attacks from Assad loyalists.

Thousands of people, including women and children, have been killed in the skirmishes, which first broke out in March last year.

The arrival of Syrian asylum seekers to the UK has fallen since the collapse of Assad regime, but there are still 7,900 Syrians waiting for their applications to be reviewed.

Most, in the meantime, are left in limbo in asylum accommodation, unable to work and receiving only around £8 a week.

The i Paper understands that she is making removals to Syria an early priority of delivering the policy package and plans a stepping-up of returns, which could be both voluntary or enforced, in the coming months.

A limited number of Syrians have already been helped to return since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in 2024.

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“It’s a lot of stress for people when they come here, and they have faced a lot of problems,” said Mr Azizi. “Why can’t you just give them the opportunity to stay and try? It’s not fair to leave them waiting like that. They have hope when they come here, they are here for a year, and then that is taken away and they are in danger.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “As outlined in the asylum policy statement, we are exploring resuming enforced returns to countries where we have not routinely carried out such removals in recent years, including to Syria.”

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