Fleeing the Hell to the Unknown | Ronahi Hasan

On 14 April 2022, the British government made the controversial announcement that refugees arriving in the UK via the English Channel would be transferred to Rwanda for their asylum applications to be processed. In this episode, Ronahi Hasan interviews Alaa Habs, a refugee who fled war-torn Syrian to seek sanctuary in the UK after making the perilous journey across the English Channel. At the time of recording, Alaa was in a detention centre, awaiting his fate. Since released, he still awaits confirmation on his refugee status from the Home Office.

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Others Unheard is a podcast by the Refugee Journalism Project, made by women journalists in the programme. This anthology series spotlights one underrepresented human story in every episode, produced by a RJP journalist with an intrinsic relationship and personal interest in the topic.

The Refugee Journalism Project supports refugee and exiled journalists to restart their careers in the UK. It was founded in 2016 and is based at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.