Hamshika Krishnamoorthy

Bangkok — Kishanth Peramaiya spent two years in a legal limbo after a British authority granted him international protection. A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker detained by the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) administration for nearly five years died by apparent suicide on 13 September in Mbabane, Eswatini's largest city, according to local news reports and relatives of the deceased.

Series Humanitarian Technology A curated collection of reporting from The New Humanitarian. More of this in-depth coverage Republish this article For EU countries that have long wrestled with the difficulty of deporting migrants, a digital tool created by the UN’s migration agency, IOM, has promised much. But critics fear it is accelerating flawed deportation processes that are prone to rights abuses and short on safeguards.

The UK plans to hand some remote islands back to Mauritius, and relocate the Sri Lankan asylum seekers stuck there Three years ago, 89 Tamil asylum seekers left Sri Lanka via southern India to escape persecution. Their aim was to reach Canada in an unseaworthy boat, as others had attempted before them. They expected the transoceanic crossing to take 30 days. After 11 days at sea, their motor no longer working, they were rescued and taken to Diego Garcia, an island in the Chagos Archipelago.