(BBC) A plane due to remove asylum-seekers from the UK has been cancelled after legal challenges.
The Home Office said the charter flight was “paused” to allow time for the applications to be considered.
On Wednesday, 12 migrants were returned to France and Germany by plane.
Asylum-seekers at a detention centre near Gatwick Airport are on hunger strike in protest at the proposed flights and some are reported to have tried to take their own lives.
In a Twitter post, the Home Office had earlier claimed that EU regulations that determine where an asylum claim is heard were being used by “activist lawyers” to delay and disrupt returns flights.
