The Guardian newspaper published a report on the suffering of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe, and the author of the report, Diane Taylor, focused on some of the cases she met and investigated after their arrival in Britain.

Among them is Dr. Yahya Al-Roi, 60, from Yemen, who moved from a diplomat to a rubber boat, where he was the head of the government's National Information Center, which is part of the Ministry of Interior.

“Before all the problems started, I used to travel by plane from one country to another using my diplomatic passport, and when I arrived at the airports I did not have to stand in lines, because I was transporting through the private gate for diplomats. At that time all the doors were open in front of me, and now all of them,” Al-Roi says. Closed and I have no choice but to cross the English Channel to Britain in a rubber dinghy trying to reach safety. "

The author indicated that he cried while recounting how he was forced to flee Yemen.

Due to the conflict there, he arrived in Switzerland in April 2019 with his diplomatic passport and claimed asylum.

While he was there, he was assaulted by some political opponents, he believes, because he had previously spoken out against corruption in Yemen, which led to his blindness in one of his eyes.

Dr. Yahya Al-Roi lost his sight in one of his eyes after the attack (The Guardian)

"After that attack, my life was in constant danger in Switzerland, so I traveled by train to France on July 19, 2020 and spent 4 days in Calais before crossing to the United Kingdom in a boat," he says. "Money does not matter to me, and all I want is to live." In peace; and since there is no just system for refugees in Europe, we are forced to move from one country to another. "

The author of the report says that many of those traveling in small boats are male, and that the stories of women who make this dangerous journey, who are particularly vulnerable to rape and trafficking, are rarely heard.

However, I mentioned the story of a woman in her early twenties who had fled Eritrea with her father and brothers, and arrived in Britain at the beginning of this month in a small boat from Calais, and was separated from the rest of her family, and she is now pregnant as a result of a gang rape by 5 policemen in Libya before 5 Months.

She now resides in a hotel provided by the Ministry of the Interior, and her ordeal increased when an examination of the fetus showed that it was not moving, and the pregnancy must be terminated in order to preserve her life.

The woman recounts that her life in Tripoli was "like hell";

But when she arrived in Calais, she touched the sympathy of charities and the French, and she does not know what will happen to her in Britain.

This is another story of an asylum seeker in his early twenties from Yemen who fled the persecution of the Houthis in his homeland in 2017, and deported twice to Yemen before arriving in Libya, where he was kidnapped by a gang that trades in human organs and took him to an "underground clinic" where organs are removed to sell. There, one of his kidneys was stolen.

Despite his surgery, he traveled via Morocco, Spain and France to Britain, and arrived in a small boat last June, and there he received hospital treatment.

But he says, "I am very traumatized, and I suffer a lot of psychological pressure, and if I tell a lot about the smugglers who stole my kidneys, I am afraid they will track me down and punish me again."