An Afghan policeman guards the site of a suicide attack on a Shia shrine in Kabul on Tuesday. The UK government wants to return Afghan teenagers from Britain. Photograph: Keystone USA-Zuma/Rex Features
Last year the Home Office received 547 applications from Afghan children separated from their families wanting to stay in the UK. As of next year the government wants to start sending them back to Kabul.
"It is hard to see how any of them can lawfully and safely be sent back while Afghanistan remains a death trap for lone children," says Francis FitzGibbon QC, part-time immigration judge and a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
An Afghan policeman guards the site of a suicide attack on a Shia shrine in Kabul on Tuesday. The UK government wants to return Afghan te...