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Aaron Walawalkar

Aaron Walawalkar is a London-based multimedia journalist

September 2024

  • A migrant being put into the back of a white security van while being held by an immigration officer

    ‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed

    Testimonies from Home Office and security staff show repeated use of force on distressed detainees

March 2024

  • A small child carried by a police officer.

    Rights and freedom
    Fears UK coastguards left children adrift on small boats before Channel tragedy

  • An RNLI lifeboat charity flag flying on a beach with a surfer seen in the background

    Rights and freedom
    RNLI-Border Force row reveals ‘chaos’ in maritime rescue before Channel tragedy

December 2023

  • a woman adds a bunch of flowers to a large collection of bouquets laid on the pavement with messages outside the harbour at Portland

    Suicides of asylum seekers in Home Office accommodation double in last four years

    A total of 23 people are thought to have killed themselves since 2020, with 176 deaths from all causes

November 2023

  • A woman carries her child ashore in Dungeness after being rescued while crossing the English Channel in November 2021.

    Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in days before mass drowning

    Investigation finds evidence that many calls received prior to 2021 Channel disaster were treated as less urgent

June 2023

  • Children evacuated from Afghanistan disembark from an RAF plane at Brize Norton in August 2021.

    Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless

    Downing Street crisis meeting hears that about 8,000 who arrived under Operation Warm Welcome will be evicted this summer with nowhere to go

May 2023

  • A Royal National Lifeboat Institution makes its way to an inflatable boat in the Channel.

    Today in Focus
    Did distress calls go unanswered in the run-up to a fatal Channel disaster?

    In November 2021 a dinghy crossing from France to the UK overturned, and at least 27 people drowned. Questions are being asked over whether distress calls were effectively ignored in run-up to worst Channel disaster in 30 years

April 2023

  • An abandoned life jacket on the beach after a group of migrants left on an inflatable dinghy to cross the Channel in Wimereux in 2021.

    UK coastguard ‘left Channel migrants adrift’ in lead-up to mass drowning

  • Remains of a damaged migrants' inflatable boat and a sleeping bag left by migrants on the beach near Wimereux, France, on 25 November 2021.

    ‘Horror beyond words’: how Channel distress calls were ‘ignored’ 19 times before 2021 disaster

June 2022

  • A British police officer stands guard on the beach of Dungeness, on the southeast coast of England, on June 15, 2022, as Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) members of staff help migrants to disembark from one of their lifeboat after they were picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel.

    Revealed: dozens of vulnerable asylum seekers have died in Home Office housing since 2020

    Data shows number of deaths is higher than admitted as experts question safeguarding and fear chances to save lives were missed

May 2022

  • Marc Goddard, a parish councillor at Linton-on-Ouse, outside the entrance to the former RAF base

    ‘We’re collateral damage’: fury in Yorkshire village at its role in migrant detention plan

    Priti Patel has buried ‘humane’ plans for refugees – and in Linton-on-Ouse, locals fear a new ‘reception centre’ has an undisclosed purpose

March 2022

  • Rough sleeper in Oxford, Oxfordshire

    Non-British rough sleepers ‘targeted for deportation’ by Home Office support scheme

    Charities and councils passing on the personal data of homeless people could lead to them being forcibly removed from the UK

December 2021

  • D Wing at Brook House immigration removal centre, next to Gatwick airport in West Sussex.

    Suicidal asylum seekers subjected to ‘dangerous’ use of force by guards at detention centre

    Observer investigation finds officers without the usual certification used risky restraint techniques at Brook House

October 2021

  • Sabir Zazai

    Asylum accommodation deaths ‘twice as high’ as Home Office admitted

    Government accused of downplaying toll after requests from charities reveal discrepancies

May 2021

  • Rear view of a large commercial airliner taxing on the runway shortly before take off. Heat haze above the runway.

    Observer special report
    Uncovered: the brutal secrets of UK deportation flight Esparto 11

    On 12 August 2020 at 7.48am the first of a series of Home Office flights carrying asylum seekers left Stansted. This is the harrowing story of the hours before it took off and the anguish of those on board

April 2021

  • Homeless people risk losing the right to stay in the UK under new powers.

    Home Office: new deportation law may discriminate against ethnic minorities

    Internal report reveals risk to migrant rough sleepers in crackdown

March 2021

  • A cardboard shelter and tent for a homeless person under a railway arch in South London.

    Home Office revives plan to deport non-UK rough sleepers

    Priti Patel’s ministry has quietly relaunched a covert programme exposed in 2019 by the Observer

February 2021

  • Traffic passes a ‘local Covid-19 rules apply’ sign displayed along the A494 near Queensferry in Flintshire.

    Welsh council under fire over Covid restrictions at Traveller site

    Flintshire council accused of discrimination after hiring security firm to enforce restrictions at caravan site

November 2020

  • Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium

    Manchester food banks urge Premier League clubs to pay staff real living wage

  • Dictionary and english language reference books

    Oxford Dictionaries amends 'sexist' definitions of the word 'woman'

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