Asylum seekers ‘guilty until proven innocent’

BBC – In a classroom at Glasgow’s Anniesland College, a group of teenage students are working together to solve a puzzle set for them by their teacher.

Their enthusiastic laughter does little to betray the fact that they have fled to Scotland from some of the most violent countries on earth.

Among them is Rima Andmariam, a Pentecostal Christian who fled persecution in the east African country of Eritrea.

She was later unofficially adopted by a Glasgow couple who found her sleeping rough on the streets.

But Rima’s dreams of becoming a civil engineer in Scotland hang in the balance as the UK Border Agency believes she is older than she claims.

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